On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:19:19AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> Well, what's more interesting is a failover system when you
poll several
> sources of the same channels (maybe that's how yum already works, from
> your description it doesn't look like this)
it is in fact:
yum has a failovermethod which lets it roundrobin or priority failover
b/t repos of the same packages example:
[somerepo]
name=some guy's repo
baseurl=url://somewhere/somepath
url://somewhereelse/somepath
url://somewhereelse/someotherpath
failovermethod=roundrobin
But if url://somewhere/somepath is successful, it wouldn't check the
next repo, would it?
You could combine the failover with the "conventional" multirepo
access of yum like
[fastbutabitoutdated]
name=fastbutabitoutdated
baseurl=url://somewhere/somepath
[master]
name=masterbutfailessometimes
baseurl=url://somewhereelse/somepath
url://somewhere/somepath
i.e. put your local mirror at front and as a failover to the master
mirror, ensuring manximum bandwidth when the package is available at
the local mirror and also being up to date with failover.
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