On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 20:49, William Hooper wrote:
D. D. Brierton said:
> Excellent. So all I do is add
rpm.livna.org to yum.conf and yum
> automagically takes care of the rest?
Umm, no. "point it to a text file of repos and it randomly picks one",
just like up2date. For example:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2
I think we're talking past each other. What I was trying to ask was
whether when I upgrade to the next version of yum my current yum.conf
will suffice to use mirrors, or whether I have to re-do my yum.conf all
over again in order to take advantage of this new functionality. If the
latter, then that seems a shame as (a) lots of people won't alter their
yum.conf files and the problems will persist of people mailing the list
asking why yum is so slow; (b) it just seems that this functionality
could just be part of yum's default behaviour.
>> Of course it would be nice to decide what those terms mean
and to what
>> repos they apply first.
>
> I thought that was fairly clear:
The concept if fairly clear, but I have yet to see any repo labeled any of
those in the real world,
Well, except for Fedora Core itself! But I know what you mean. But if
yum-arch insisted that yum repositories specified whether they were
Extras or Alternatives do you think any of the repository owners would
have difficulty giving the correct answer?
Best, Darren
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