[ANN] stablemirror - a yum plugin for stable, up-to-date mirrors

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:21 AM +0200 6/13/06, Ambrogio wrote:
>Il giorno dom, 11/06/2006 alle 23.53 -0400, Tony Nelson ha scritto:
>> Stablemirrors makes yum use its mirrors in ths same order each time, though
>> different for each machine.  This alone fixes most of the issues.
>> Stablemirrors makes sure to check the date of a mirror before using it.
>> The first mirror must be at least as up-to-date as the last time run; and
>> any subsequent mirrors used on failures must be at the same date as the
>> first mirror.  This is done by downloading the tiny repomd.xml file, so
>> little bandwidth is wasted.

>I'm starting using it.
>
>I think is a good think manner.

Thank you.


>Another kind of sorting rules can be the speed of the mirror.

There is already a plugin (fastestmirror) that attempts to do that, based
on how quickly it can establish a connection.  I think that is the wrong
problem, as fast, incorrect mirrors are no better than slow, incorrect
mirrors.


>I don't know Python, so I can't help you but I will read source.

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