[WBEL-users] More yum mirrors?

[Alex Tkachenko]

Just thinking at loud...

It would be nice to employ a P2P features to address the problems.
Say, the client contacts the official server to get the file name and
file checksums as well as the addresses of other peers which have the
file in question available. Then use technology similar to edonkey to
get the file (possibly from several different sources).

I understand that this is completely new piece of software to write, but
maybe there is somebody out there with enough time and inspiration...

Have a great day,
Alex

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 18:46, Ed wrote:
> John Morris wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Once you have tested the mirror mechanism, getting the new configset into 
> >>place is as simple as dropping the (noreplace) from the %config directive in 
> >>the spec file's %files list.  Then on the next release you put it back in.
> > 
> > 
> > Owwww, that would be a really evil thing to do to the folks who have
> > pointed it to internal mirrors or added in a bunch of third party yum/apt
> > repos.
> > 
> > Might have to do it though, guess the peeps who do that sort of thing 
> > would likely be the ones who actually read announcements and such and 
> > would be ready for it if I give a long enough head's up.
> > 
> 
> If it is *never* OK to point directly to beau.org for yum updates, we 
> could put a script in the %postinstall of the new yum package which 
> would comment out lines of the yum sources file or replace them with 
> another mirror.
> 
> That might be a bit of a hack though. :-)
> 
>    Ed
> 
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