Blame SOURCES/BZ-1509831-baseurl-clarify-multiple-urls.patch
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commit 98c6fbf4a338239ce7e54bdd48e25e8b294359db
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Author: Michal Domonkos <mdomonko@redhat.com>
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Date: Wed Jun 13 17:19:27 2018 +0200
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docs: baseurl: clarify multiple URLs
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diff --git a/docs/yum.conf.5 b/docs/yum.conf.5
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index 5d9ab61a..0f77d913 100644
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--- a/docs/yum.conf.5
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+++ b/docs/yum.conf.5
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@@ -1032,8 +1032,10 @@ A human readable string describing the repository.
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.IP
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\fBbaseurl\fR
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Must be a URL to the directory where the yum repository's `repodata' directory
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-lives. Can be an http://, ftp:// or file:// URL. You can specify multiple URLs
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-in one baseurl statement. The best way to do this is like this:
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+lives. Can be an http://, ftp:// or file:// URL.
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+
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+You can specify multiple URLs in one baseurl statement. The best way to do this
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+is like this:
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.br
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[repositoryid]
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.br
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@@ -1046,6 +1048,12 @@ baseurl=url://server1/path/to/repository/
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url://server3/path/to/repository/
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.br
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+The URLs listed are considered different locations (mirrors) of the same
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+repository.
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+That means, if one URL fails, another one is tried, and so on.
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+The order in which the URLs are tried is determined by the \fBfailovermethod\fR
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+option.
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If you list more than one baseurl= statement in a repository you will find
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yum will ignore the earlier ones and probably act bizarrely. Don't do this,
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you've been warned.
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