On 5/17/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tony Nelson wrote:
> 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).
It is from time to time, Tony. A few hours wait seems to fix it, usually.
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Sorry Gene, but it has been going on for more than two weeks already!
I thought a few hours would fix it but it hasn't. I think it is past time the
people doing the "updates" mirrors got together and start comparing
notes. It does not seem to go away automgically like other synchronization issues
Javier
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