up2date and yum: failover mode?

[seth vidal]

> 
> 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