On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Thomas Goirand wrote:
James Antill wrote:
The above is in the old mirrorlist format and not in the metalink file
format, why have you called it metalink?
Yum looks for the string "/metalink" and if present assumes the
mirrorlist is in metalink format (this is for compatibility reasons, and
can't really be changed).
Just change the name if the above to "mirrorlist" and it'll be fine (or
use the metalink format, if you want).
Thanks a lot, this indeed works.
Now, one more question. Even if there's one of our mirrors on the same
subnet, on the same data center, yum uses that mirror on the other side
of earth. What's the way that yum uses to guess who's the fastest? How
come yum always picks-up our very slow and far Malaysian mirror, which
is ftp://601.apt-proxy.gplhost.com ?
it's not - it's probably just sorting the list generically and 6 comes
first.
If you want to sort the mirrors by access time look at the fastestmirror
plugin.
-sv
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