FC12 update repo broken?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/30/2010 03:40 AM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:31:33PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 03/29/2010 04:30 PM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
>>> On 3/29/2010 7:33, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>> I am trying to reposync updates, but reposync seems to be having troubles:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> [updates: 2742  of 6885  ] Downloading
>>>> kde-l10n-Korean-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm
>>>> Could not retrieve package kde-l10n-Korean-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch. Error
>>>> was failure: kde-l10n-Korean-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm from updates:
>>>> [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>>>> [updates: 2743  of 6885  ] Skipping existing
>>>> kde-l10n-Latvian-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm
>>>> [updates: 2744  of 6885  ] Skipping existing
>>>> kde-l10n-Lithuanian-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm
>>>> [updates: 2745  of 6885  ] Skipping existing
>>>> kde-l10n-LowSaxon-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm
>>>> [updates: 2746  of 6885  ] Downloading
>>>> kde-l10n-Macedonian-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm
>>>> Could not retrieve package kde-l10n-Macedonian-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.
>>>> Error was failure: kde-l10n-Macedonian-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm from
>>>> updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> What is going on, here?
>>>
>>> I noticed this when I set up the Fedora mirror at my old workplace a
>>> couple years ago; a number of mirrors drop some or all of the kde-l10n-*
>>> packages for some reason.  I'm not sure if this is intentional or not,
>>> but it makes choosing mirrors more annoying than it should be.
>>
>> Well, if this is true, these "mirrors" should be removed from fedora's
>> mirrorlists ;)
>>
>> As things currently appear to me, either
>> * Fedora's mirrormanager is not working
>
> With over 550,000 files/directories on the master mirror, and over 200
> public mirrors, no, MirrorManager does not crawl every file in every
> directory on every mirror.  It crawls the most recent 10 RPMs in each
> directory, and all other files.

Well, how many mirrors does yum/reposync crawl?

Note the "No more mirrors to try":
...
updates: 2763  of 6885  ] Downloading 
kde-l10n-Turkish-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm
Could not retrieve package kde-l10n-Turkish-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch. Error 
was failure: kde-l10n-Turkish-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm from updates: 
[Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
[updates: 2764  of 6885  ] Downloading 
kde-l10n-Ukrainian-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm
Could not retrieve package kde-l10n-Ukrainian-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch. Error 
was failure: kde-l10n-Ukrainian-4.4.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm from updates: 
[Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

This is from a couple of minutes ago, i.e. 12h+ after my initial 
encounter of this issue.

> I do wish yum would be more verbose about _which_ mirror it is using,
> which is available as a debug option.  That would help folks like me
> look for which mirrors might be out of date.

Yep.

Ralf