D. D. Brierton said:
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,
No, because you won't be pointing to the text file of repos.
or whether I have to re-do my yum.conf all over
again in order to take advantage of this new functionality.
Yes.
If the latter,
then that seems a shame as
Given the alternative of breaking everyone's yum.conf I think it is the
right move.
(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;
Only for people that are doing upgrades and have already edited their
yum.conf. I would guess that most of the people complaining don't fall
into either of those catagories.
I for one don't want my yum.conf automagically edited, because I'm sure
that the mirror on my LAN is faster than any mirror that Yum would pick.
(b) it just seems that this functionality could just be
part of yum's default behaviour.
It is when using the new config files shipped with FC3.
--
William Hooper