Livna.org gone?

Jay Moore jaymo at mail.bokler.com
Sun Nov 6 03:09:46 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 19:13 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> > But, isn't there a way to add mirrors instead of changing the base url?
> 
> You can use something like this:
> 
> [livna]
> name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=
>  http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
>  http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
>  http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
>  http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
> failovermethod=priority
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
> 
> With this "failovermethod=priority" yum will first try the server listed
> at the top and skip to the next one if it can reach it (and so forth).
> 

OK - thanks; I wasn't aware of that trick. One more question: 

The "mirrorlist=" spec apparently refers to a URL that has a list of
URLs that are "baseurl's" - is that correct?

If so, why doesn't livna publish a mirrorlist URL? 

Thanks,
Jay




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