Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

[Jay Lee]

William Hooper wrote:

>Les Mikesell wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:32, William Hooper wrote:
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>Does yum pick a mirror at random now?
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>>>It is configured to do that be default now, yes.
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>>Ouch - that is very cache-unfriendly.
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>It is much, much more mirror friendly, though.
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wgetting 
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3 
shows a list of possible mirrors and I assume yum randomly selects one 
to use each time (resulting in each request behind a proxy hitting a 
different mirror).  What would be ideal is if that url was dynamic and 
returned a single mirror url for yum to use.  Squid would then cache 
that mirror link as well as the rpms and headers from that mirror 
resulting in less traffic to all mirrors.  The scripting on 
fedora.redhat.com could be further enhanced to return a mirror close to 
where the requesting IP address is.  I really hate it when I fire up 
up2date only to have it start pulling from a mirror in Bulgaria or 
somewhere else thousands of miles away.  This would be both cache and 
mirror friendly to do.  Of course this may be easy for me to say and 
difficult to implement...

Jay

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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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