[WBEL-users] updates since respin-1?

[William Hooper]

Erik Williamson said:
> William Hooper wrote:
>
>> Skimming the changes to Yum (I've been slacking on my Fedora testing),
>> it looks like Seth added a "mirrorlist" option.  This will probably
>> allow yum
>
> Yes - This is going into effect for the pending Fedora Core 3 release.
> The mirror list is hosted on the fedora main site, and fetched by the
> client periodically.

If it is like up2date, every sync.

> Looks to be a good solution to removing out-of-sync
> mirrors

It doesn't do anything for out-of-sync mirrors.  They still need to be
manually removed from the served list.

> - hopefully  whitebox can use the same system.

It's already there because up2date supports it.

http://whiteboxlinux.org/up2date-mirrors/

-- 
William Hooper