how to query multiple servers

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 22:30 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 22:01 +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I would like yum on my fedora core 2 and 3 to query another repository
> > if one is not avilable.
> > What syntax (synopsys?) should I put into yum.conf to enable that?
> 
> Alexander, as usual, was short, correct, and to-the-point.  If an
> example might help...
> 
> # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
> [updates-released]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> baseurl=http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
>         http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
>         http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
>         http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
>         ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
>         http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
>         http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
> failovermethod=priority
> #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> 
> Without failovermethod the default ordering is roundrobin == random

Another example, this time using a local mirrorlist, can be found at:
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist/

The mirrorlist syntax only works in yum 2.1.x (as used in FC3) IIRC.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>