On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 09:50 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:30 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > What I'd like to propose instead is that yum's default failover setting > > of roundrobin be changed to priority. This would allow any yum tool > > using Fedora's Mirror Manager to return mirror lists work without > > adjusting default config. This would mean that consumers of static > > non-ordered lists would need to override config, however I posit that > > in the F8+ world this is not the most common case. Certainly not for > > Fedora. I'm unaware of what method CentOS uses to generate mirror > > lists though, however they would have a good amount of lead time before > > this setting would be seen in RHEL6 (RHEL to the best of my knowledge > > doesn't use mirror lists, it uses the rhn plugin to determine what repo > > urls to access so this wouldn't necessarily effect RHEL). > > It doesn't sound horrible. I'm not sure I agree with you that setting > the failover option to a repo is terribly onerous but I understand what > you're saying. I'm fairly ambivalent about this. On the one hand we can > change the default just in fedora and avoid blowing anyone else up. OTOH > changing it in yum is trivial and this doesn't really change behavior. > > Anyone else care?
So feel free to shoot me for suggesting this, but I think it'd be better to have the default depend on how we got the URLs. If we get a list from a mirrorlist, then assume priority, but if we get a list of baseurls then assume roundrobin. This is also better backwards compat. But if that's too magic, priority everywhere is better than current behaviour. -- James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Red Hat
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