Up2date replacement

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 15:50 +0000, Willem Riede wrote:
> On 11/26/2005 10:18:45 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 15:10 +0000, Willem Riede wrote:
> > > 
> > > Perhaps I should file a yum RFE to make yum not only select mirrors for 
> > > access speed, but also for the recentness of their metadata file?
> > 
> > what we had considered was using the fastest mirror plugin to sort the
> > list of mirrors. Then store that sorted list in the repo cache
> > directory. Then redownload the list and re-sort/store it every 8 hours
> > or so, same as how we're storing the repomd.xml data, now.
> 
> So is something like that going to happen, or do I need to give an extra 
> (RFE) nudge?  :-)
> 

an rfe is not going to nudge anything. Submitting the code is going to
make it happen faster.

-sv