yum/apt mirror support in up2date as of up2date 4.3, up2date supports a list of mirrors for each channel. The configuration for mirrors is spread out a bit for flexibility, but should be easy enough. The first thing to enable use of mirrors is to add a "yum-mirror" or "apt-mirror" config line in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources. This line is of the format: yum-mirror channel-label uri or apt-mirror channel-label uri The uri is a location where a mirror list can be found. This can be a local file:// url or a http url. This file will be fetched, and parsed. The format is one url per line, with the url being equilivent to the base url in the sources file: for example, a mirrors list for fedora-core-1 might look like: http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/1/i386/os/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ http://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core/1/i386/os/ By default, up2date will fetch this file each time it is ran, and update it. If the user wants to limit the list of mirrors, they can create a file in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/mirrors/ with the name of the channel as the filename. For example, /etc/sysconfig/rhn/mirrors/fedora-core-1 might contain: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ up2date will parse this file, and randomly pick one of the mirrors in it to use for the duration of the up2date sesssion. Note that if the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/mirrors/CHANNELNAME file exists, up2date will use it, and will not fetch the mirror list from the uri listed in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources for the "yum-mirror" type Note: if the yum-mirror line doesnt exist in the config file for a given channel, no mirrors will be used and the url specified for that channel will be used instead.