up2date and yum: failover mode?
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Oct 22 12:19:19 UTC 2003
>
> 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
-sv
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