On 29/08/2007, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been seeing this for quite a while, probably since I started trying > out FC7. There seems some definite tardiness in updates getting out to > mirrors. When I've bothered to go hunting around, I've found it hard to > find an up-to-date mirror, there's lots of them that are lagging. Still, the original problem in this thread is fixed. Instead of guessing whether a user is using an out-of-date mirror, it is so easy to take a look at the primary download site to see whether the repodata directory is up-to-date. Anyway, concerning your comment, Tim, for a mirror to be up-to-date quickly after new updates have been released, it takes a passionate mirror-admin. > With prior releases, the usual problem I noticed was out-of-sync mirrors > (what's listed as being available, and what was available). You'd try > to yum update, and it'd fail on some things. Not every mirror syncs once a day. When I've been hit very hard by metadata checksum failures several weeks ago, I've visited several mirrors and examined their repodata directories. At that time, some were several days behind in mirroring Fedora Extras, e.g. even mirrors.kernel.org. To me it didn't become clear whether possibly they update only the Fedora Core Released Updates tree more often - or not even that. > Now, you try, and you get > "nothing to do" messages. Perhaps whatever was tried to avoid the > out-of-sync problem is causing a new one? It's likely that Matt Domsch can tell, since this might be due to ongoing changes in the MirrorManager utility.
