Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

[John Summerfied]

William Hooper wrote:
> Jay Lee wrote:
> 
>>wgetting
>>http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3
>>shows a list of possible mirrors and I assume yum randomly selects one to
>>use each time (resulting in each request behind a proxy hitting a
>>different mirror).  What would be ideal is if that url was dynamic and
>>returned a single mirror url for yum to use.
> 
> 
> You would loose the ability to fail over to another mirror if something
> was wrong with that one URL.  A

I don't care. My experience with Debian's setup suggest that, while this 
happens, it's rare.

It could reduce the load on FRC - yum could continue to use the one it 
has until it does break.

I actually don't think Red Hat can do this; it can't know which Western 
Australians should ose WAIX and which should not. Potentially, that 
answer can change from one day to the next.

In contrast, FRC doesn't even publish a current list of Australian 
mirrors Australians might consider.



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