Using mirrorlists

[Anders F Björklund]

Edward Diener wrote:

> In Yum-based systems mirrorlists are often used instead of base  
> URLs. Is there an equivalent to using mirrorlists in Smart and, if  
> so, how does this work when adding a channel ?

Smart uses separate mirrors, so you add them with "smart mirror"  
after the channel has been added with "smart channel". Support for  
integration with yum mirrorlist (including metalink) is pending, see  
https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/247351

It's actually a problem that Yum doesn't use the baseurl, and even  
comments it out in the .repo definition (!), since Smart uses the  
baseurl for naming and identifying the repo files. Currently* this  
means that if you switch mirrors, you need to redownload all files...

[rawhide]
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/ 
development/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist? 
repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch

* This only applies when using the yumchannelsync plugin, and not  
cheating by looking at commented lines. It does not apply if you set  
the channel baseurl and mirror list yourself, though. Note that  
"$basearch" only works with the plugin, for smart .channel or  
otherwise you need to say "i386" or "x86_64" instead.

--anders