Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

[William Hooper]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 07:05, John Summerfied wrote:
>
>
>> Update lists mirrors; it seems that Yum downloads a fresh list each
>> time (yuck, I'd rather see the list in an rpm that's updated as needed),
>> so that should be a quick fix. Once a mirror fixes its problems, relist
>> it.
>
> Does yum pick a mirror at random now?

It is configured to do that be default now, yes.

>  I run several machines
> through the same caching http proxy and when I first started it seemed like
> most files would be cached.  Now, with no change at my end it seems like
> there is never a cache hit even when another machine just performed the
> same update. Is there a way to force the order of mirror attempts to be
> the same so the cache will work again?

Remove the mirror list and set yum to use the mirror you prefer.  Or set
up a local yum repo and point them all to that.

-- 
William Hooper