[mirror-admin] New Private Mirror

[Brian Long]

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 13:14 -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:26 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:42:21AM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 15:23 +0100, Uwe Kiewel wrote:
> > > > Brian Long schrieb:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > I've set up a private mirror with report_mirror successfully logging the
> > > > > directories I'm carrying.  The site is listed here:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/site/299
> > > > >
> > > > > How long should it be before the mirrorlist CGI returns my private
> > > > > mirror? 
> > > > IIRC the CGI script is only updated a couple of minutes after every full 
> > > > hour
> > > 
> > > Yes, I just needed to be more patient.  :)  Since my mirror is now
> > > returned at the top of the mirrorlist output, I assume I need clients to
> > > set failovermethod=priority to always prefer my mirror.  Is that
> > > correct?
> > 
> > Fedora 8 and higher this is the default already.  Fedora 7 and
> > earlier, the code will only return your mirror, not the rest.  So, no
> > client side changes needed.
> 
> Thanks Matt.  Guess it's time to submit a man page patch to
> yum-devel.  :)  yum 3.2.8 in F8, at least, still says round-robin is
> default.  I'll check 3.2.13 and submit a patch if needed.

Sorry for being dense and responding to myself.  I just realized you
meant failovermethod=priority was the default inside the Fedora yum repo
files, not yum itself.

/Brian/

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