On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 08:09 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 01:00 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > Has anything come of trying to get the dnload of primary.sqlite.bz2 > > presto-able? That would save a ton of time when updating. It's a royal > > pain at slow connect speeds to have to dnload that sucker everyday. IF > > it could be presto'd, that would be heaven. Thanks, Ric > > Sorry, not yet. I'm also hesitant to implement it as (at least as I > understand it) yum may soon get that ability built-in. > > Jonathan Here's another typical night wasted Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: mirrors.usu.edu * updates: mirrors.usu.edu * gemi: math.ifi.unizh.ch Setting up Presto fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:07 updates 100% |=========================| 383 B 00:00 gemi 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading Presto metadata in from local files primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 3.8 MB 22:23 http://mirrors.usu.edu/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 2.8 MB 17:08 ftp://fedora.bu.edu/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 1.2 MB 07:46 http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. primary.sqlite.bz2 20% |===== | 776 kB 16:27 ETA A Friday night at 10 O'clock, at modem speeds, looking at this crap. Sorry, but it really jerks me off. I don't recall having this much trouble with FidoNet and my BBS, back in the Dark Ages running at 28.8, grabbing email for a 100+ users. If a mirror is syncing to the updates, would it not be possible for it to announce that it is currently offline, in a manner that yum can "see" and yum skip polling it?? This problem would be merely annoying, if you had a T-1. It's GD annoying with a low-speed DSL or modem connect. If you count the minutes before I cntl C'd the entire thing, one entire hour of trying to get primary.sqlite.bz2 and still failing, not one dang file installed or updated. If presto could handle this file transfer as an update, which is just an updated version of the same file, I would have wasted minutes, instead of more than an hour. Even if, I still see no reason for a mirror to be "available", when it isn't ready to do useful stuff. It's just not "The Right Thing(tm)" Am I not seeing this correctly?? As another suggestion, why not halt the mirror update process at around noon on Friday and just leave things be until Monday?? We be HaPpY with much joy-load, while we update stuff and you guys take a much needed break during the weekend. With these mirrors out of sync, that I'm seeing at 10PM on Friday night, is someone working late?? Worse case, is someone getting their giggles knowing that everything down stream will go to $hit if just one more update is pushed out to the mirrors at 6PM? If so, I hope that Rahul will do the appropriate thing and put a foot in their a$$. I hate to be the paranoid, but what gives?? Really freaking AnNoYeD, Ric (for what it's worth, I edited out the original cuss words) :) -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
