[WBEL-users] updates since respin-1?

[William Hooper]

Paul Pianta said:
[snip]
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to try to have at least some control over
> which mirrors are up-to-date and which mirrors are not? I think that it is
> pretty important in maintaining the credibility of WBEL - and it is in the
> quality of the mirrors that many people will base their judgement (ie.
> through 'yum update').

That's not the way it works.  Mirrors volunteer their bandwidth to the
project, they aren't going to be inclined to give anyone else the level of
access to their system to be able to sync it.

[snip]
> I know this doesn't work for the hard-coded mirrors in yum.conf but that
> is another problem. I don't believe that any mirrors should ever be
> hard-coded into the yum package. The main repository can be in there and
> the website could then maintain an additional list of active mirrors that
> people could copy/paste into their yum.conf once they realise that the
> main repo is majorly overloaded.

Been there, done that.  It doesn't work because the majority don't take
the time to make the change (see the mail archives from the first
release).
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William Hooper