yum-mirror directive for up2date

[William Hooper]

Jorge Fábregas said:
> Hello all,
>
>
> Could someone please explain me (or poing me to the right direction) on
> how the yum-mirror directive on /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources really works?

/usr/share/doc/up2date-x.x.x/mirrors.txt (replace x.x.x with your version
number)

> Let say
> I have 4 mirrors for my main updates repository.  How is that up2date will
>  cycle thru these 4?

No.  Up2date will "...randomly pick one of the mirrors...to use for the
duration of the up2date session".

> Is there a timeout? If a certain site doesn't
> respond in certain time..will it try the next one on the list?

No.

> How much
> time is this? Does it cycle thru them in alphabetic order?

No.

> If it connects
> to the first server successfully and then 5 minutes later it looses the
> connection (they may be rebooting the server) does up2date will fail? or
> try the next one?

Assuming it is the same up2date session, it will fail.

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William Hooper