I am attempting to restore some software on a few machines that are currently installed with Fedora 10, and have discovered a problem with the mirror list. When going to http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist%5C?repo=fedora-10%5C&arch=x8... to retrieve the list of mirrors to download packages from, all of the URLs provided are incorrect, having replaced "fedora" in the results with "a" - this has shown to be the case for both the fedora-10 repo, as well as the updates-released-source-f10 repo. To determine the extent of the problem, I checked with both the x86_64 and i386 versions of the repo mirror list from fedora 7 through 12, and found that the problem exists only with Fedora 9 and 10, but for all repositories related to it. In each case, the repo list comes back looking like this:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-source-f10... produces:
# repo = updates-released-source-f10 arch = source Using Internet2 country = US country = global http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/a/linux/updates/10/SRPMS/ http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/a/linux/updates/10/SRPMS/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora-archive/a/linux/updates/10/SRPMS/ http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/a/linu...
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-10&arch=x86_64 produces:
# repo = fedora-10 arch = x86_64 Using Internet2 country = US country = global http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everything/x86_... http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everything/... http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora-archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everything/x86_6... http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/a/linu... http://archive.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora-archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everythin...
In each case, the list is considerably shorter than those provided for releases 7, 8, 11, and 12, and as you can see from the URLs, the /fedora/ which should be before linux/releases/... has been replaced with /a/, which renders yum unable to locate the repository contents.
While I can fix this on my local machine by manually inputting repository URLs, it's not a "proper" fix, and I felt that you should be made aware of it, as it appears to be a recent bug - I was able to update another of these machines (which has fedora 10 on it) a few days ago without problems.
Terry McKay System Administrator, Sharcnet (U of Windsor location) (519) 253-3000 x3979
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:36:59PM -0500, Terrence McKay wrote:
I am attempting to restore some software on a few machines that are currently installed with Fedora 10, and have discovered a problem with the mirror list. When going to http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist%5C?repo=fedora-10%5C&arch=x8... to retrieve the list of mirrors to download packages from, all of the URLs provided are incorrect, having replaced "fedora" in the results with "a" - this has shown to be the case for both the fedora-10 repo, as well as the updates-released-source-f10 repo. To determine the extent of the problem, I checked with both the x86_64 and i386 versions of the repo mirror list from fedora 7 through 12, and found that the problem exists only with Fedora 9 and 10, but for all repositories related to it. In each case, the repo list comes back looking like this:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-source-f10... produces:
# repo = updates-released-source-f10 arch = source Using Internet2 country = US country = global http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/a/linux/updates/10/SRPMS/ http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/a/linux/updates/10/SRPMS/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora-archive/a/linux/updates/10/SRPMS/ http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/a/linu...
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-10&arch=x86_64 produces:
# repo = fedora-10 arch = x86_64 Using Internet2 country = US country = global http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everything/x86_... http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everything/... http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora-archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everything/x86_6... http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/a/linu... http://archive.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora-archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everythin...
In each case, the list is considerably shorter than those provided for releases 7, 8, 11, and 12, and as you can see from the URLs, the /fedora/ which should be before linux/releases/... has been replaced with /a/, which renders yum unable to locate the repository contents.
While I can fix this on my local machine by manually inputting repository URLs, it's not a "proper" fix, and I felt that you should be made aware of it, as it appears to be a recent bug - I was able to update another of these machines (which has fedora 10 on it) a few days ago without problems.
Thanks for letting us know. The reason for the short list is that Fedora 9 and 10 has been moved to archive.fedoraproject.org and only very few mirrors are mirroring the EOL'd releases. The mirrolists for Fedora 7 and 8 are just as short for me as the current lists for Fedora 9 and 10.
The path with the "/a/" is indeed a bug and we are working on a fix. Thanks for pointing it out.
Adrian
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