On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 22:54 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > E.g. can a mirror definition be provided that supports "local addenda" > > that take precedence? This might be through a config file parameter. It > > could even allow one to suppress or continue processin of the "standard > > mirrors" if the locals fail. > > I get > <snip> > We can't just probe every available ftp server and look if they mirror > centos content. Which is why I said <quote> This might be through a config file parameter. It could even allow one to suppress or continue processin of the "standard mirrors" if the locals fail. </quote> I may be ignorant (in the dictionary sense:-) but I have some sense. OK. Assuming that you read carefully and I did not express myself sufficiently. What I was thinking (one of many possibilities) was along the lines of "include" directives similar to... e.g. xinetd or many other packages. Might want a slightly different name. Regardless, it would cause inclusion of a file of mirrors, maybe hand generated by the user, that would be tried before the list normally returned by the current mirroring functionality. In conjunction with that, a "flag" that says yes/no: try the "standard" mirrors if the special list fails or not. It may be a dumb idea, but not as dumb as the one you (apparently) implied I suggested. I have no complaints about how it works now. I posted my $0.25 only in the nature of contributing something I did not see suggested. I really don't give a darn how it turns out. Summerfiled chose to be "grating". He might fit right in here. :-D <snip sig stuff> -- Bill