Metalinks for CentOS (all mirrors & checksums in one file)

Metalinks contain mirror and p2p locations along with
checksums and other
metadata for faster and easier downloads. Downloads can be
distributed
between mirrors and checksums are automatically verified
when it finishes.
Mirrors have location and priority information to make the
download more
efficient.

Metalinks for CentOS are automatically generated at
http://d
ownload.packages.ro/metalink/centos/ by your mirror
RoEduNet Iasi
(http://www.iasi.roedu.net/
). These are for CentOS 3.8 and 4.4.

Here's what part of a .metalink looks like:

  <files>  
   <file name="CentOS-4.4-i386-LiveCD.iso">
    <os>Linux-x86</os>   
    <size>721965056</size>
    <verification>
     <hash
type="md5">747c9e33a10fdbf5919d9fd188ab7d23<
/hash>
    </verification>
    <resources>
      <url type="http"
           location="RO"
           preference="80">
 
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ce
ntos.org/4.4/isos/i386/CentOS-4.4-i386-L
iveCD.iso
      </url>
      <url type="http"
           location="US"
           preference="60">
 
http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/is
os/i386/CentOS-4.4-i386-LiveCD.iso
      </url>
      <url type="http"
           location="US"
           preference="60">
 
http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/cent
os/4.4/isos/i386/CentOS-4.4-i386-LiveCD.
iso
      </url>
      <url type="http"
           location="UK"
           preference="60">
 
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/m
irror.centos.org/4.4/isos/i386/CentOS-4.
4-i386-LiveCD.iso
      </url>
    </resources>

Download clients are available for Unix, Mac, & Windows.
aria2 RPMs for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 4 are at
http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/aria2/info.html

OpenOffice.org and many Linux/BSD distributions are using
metalink. Here's a
few places:

ht
tp://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html
http
://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version#Metalink
http://desktopb
sd.net/index.php?id=73
http://www.pcbsd.org
/?p=download
http://www.archlin
ux.org/download/
h
ttp://www.redwall-firewall.com/content/view/14/33/
http://yui.min
e.nu/berry/edownload.php

(( Anthony Bryan
 )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ]

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