Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed May 4 18:25:59 UTC 2005


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:32, William Hooper 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.
>>
>
> Ouch - that is very cache-unfriendly.

It is much, much more mirror friendly, though.

-- 
William Hooper




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