But not all the atomic packages are in asl... Can all the atomic packages be mirrored in asl then can drop atomic?
Its already that way, and has been for a long time. Everything ASL needs are in the asl channels. You do not need the atomic channel for ASL.
I think you have a local problem with that because that works fine (we're on that system now, and that link works fine).
Also, that URL isnt used by the atomic repo. If you use our repo rpm, that will configure yum to download a mirror list from this URL:http://www.atomicorp.com/mirrorlist/
If you have a repo file setup with that path, two things are wrong. First, we never used SSL for the atomic repo, and second the entire URL is just wrong. So you must have an old repo file, or something manually setup.
And lastly, yum will use that path to download the mirror-list file, which it will then use to roundrobin. So if you dont have a repo file that looks like this:
# Name: Atomic Rocket Turtle RPM Repository for CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 -
# URL: http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com/
# Note: This isn't covered by ASL support. -Scott
name = CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - atomicrocketturtle.com
mirrorlist = http://www.atomicorp.com/mirrorlist/atomic/centos-5-$basearch
enabled = 1
priority = 1
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY.art.txt
gpgcheck = 1
Then you have a really out of date or manually setup repo file. I recommend you run the atomic repo installer again, and remove any atomic repo files.
So failover the http, how many sites the links are all dead now
Redhat and Fedora do it.
Yes, so do we, and we use the built in method in yum to do this automatically. A correctly setup repo file will result in a yum configuration that will fail over flawlessly.