At 4:31 AM -0500 5/17/06, Javier Perez wrote: >On 5/12/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>For the past couple of weeks or so, the various mirrors for fedora >>updates(at least) have not even been close to sync'ed with the main repo >>or each other. Many posters have reported problems that come down to >>un-sync'ed mirrors -- though yum may be making it worse by changing >>mirrors on each file of a transaction (?). >> >>I frequently have to Ctrl-c out of yum and "yum clean metadata" after a >>mirror that is far in the past deletes hundreds of updates. I sometimes >>have to re-issue the original command after "repodata does not match >>checksum" and "no more mirrors to try" -- it usually works on the second >>(or third try), with the same metadata as before. I have a workaround >>that I won't mention here, as it doesn't scale. >> >>For FC4, there were local mirror lists, such as .us.east or .uk. I >>don't see this for FC5. Should there be local mirror lists for FC5? >> >>I don't see any bugs on the sync issue, but I may not be looking at the >>right place (Fedora Infrastructure/unspecified/update system). >> >>Do others feel that this is a current problem with yum updates? >> >>Should I file a bug, and where? > >I want to second on this. >What is happening to the updates repository? >This is crazy. If I want to do a rational yum update I have to keep >disabling the updates repo. >What can I do about it? Well, disabling the "updates" repo would pretty much ruin doing updates, so I don't think that's a good workaround. You could pick a single (good) mirror out of the mirrorlist and stick with that one. Use the mirrorlist URL in a web browser to get the mirrors for a repo, and edit the repo file to use that as a base url instead. (Apparantly several base urls can be listed, if you want more than one mirror.) I'm still not sure if this is a widespread problem (though I don't see how it could not be). ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
