-- On 2008-09-18 +0100 at 19:31:45 Mark Whidby wrote --

> FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote:
> >Hi Troy,
> >
> >is there a way to log which mirror we use when yum update ?
> >
> >I have a mirror 2 floors upstair which comme first in my repos :
> >
> >baseurl=ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/scientific-linux/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
> >        http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/scientific-linux/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
> >        http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/scientific/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
> >        http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
> >        ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
> >        ftp://linuxsoft.cern.ch/scientific/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
> >
> >but I often notice, just doing a 'netstat', that I am using your server 
> >rather
> >than ours and I'd like to investigate this furter on a longer period
> >of time. 
> 
> Hi,
> If you want to use your own mirrors in preference to the others you need to 
> include
> "failovermethod=priority" in your repo configuration. The default is 
> roundrobin
> which will select one at random from the list.
> 

       Thank you very much, I should have read the man page more closely :-)

-- 
                 Best regards,
                               Robert FRANCHISSEUR

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