FYI: Workaround for today's FC5 baseurl/mirrorlist problems

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 21:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> Mirror list selection is a server side infrastructure issue. Not 
>> something yum needs to manage on its own. The mirror list cgi files that 
>> were posted here are something FC6 has already implemented by default 
>> now. So you already get what you want at this point.
> 
> If the mirrorlist returned didn't go out of its way to defeat
> caching proxies there would be a lot less reason for the
> servers to be overloaded.

You make it sound like as if this is a deliberate thing. If you found 
problems, file bug reports. If you are talking about the mirror list 
posted now, that system is pretty new so helps to keep that in mind.

>>> And if yum had a counter part to "apt-get update" the network load would
>>> be less, which would make server overloads and DOS/QOS attacks less
>>> successful.
>> yum update = apt-get update
> 
> The operations are not the same.  Apt-get update just updates the
> list available in the repository.  And that step isn't repeated for
> every other operation like yum does (slowly, slowly, slowly...).

Yum doesnt connect to the repository everytime. Only if the metadata 
expires which is a configurable setting. If you want to run from cache 
you can also use yum -C <operation>. You might want to try out Yum 3.0 
in FC6.

Rahul