On 11/26/2005 12:00:58 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 14:55 -0700, Don Springall wrote:
> I currently find that updating in fedora is a hit and miss proposition and
> I do not trust any of them. I ran yumex this morning and it reports nothing
> to update. The same with pup. I run up2date and it finds updates.
> Obliviously yumex and pup decided to use some not uptodate mirror.
pup uses the exact same configuration as yum itself does. Which means
that it uses the mirror list by default. One thing we want to do is add
a nicer way of doing persistent mirror selection, but I don't know that
we'll definitely get to it by FC5. up2date points to the main download
site by default (which is less good, IMHO, from a bandwidth perspective)
Like Don I've been annoyed at times with out-of-date mirrors. That makes
sequential runs of yum inconsistent. All the time, I see things like:
[root@serve ~]# yum list mach
Setting up repositories
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:01
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
mach.x86_64 0.4.8-1.fc4 extras
[root@serve ~]# yum list mach
Setting up repositories
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 826 kB 00:01
extras : ################################################## 2350/2350
Added 22 new packages, deleted 53 old in 1.59 seconds
[root@serve ~]# yum list mach
Setting up repositories
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 838 kB 00:05
extras : ################################################## 2381/2381
Added 53 new packages, deleted 22 old in 1.61 seconds
Available Packages
mach.x86_64 0.4.8-1.fc4 extras
where a repository oscilates between today's view and some obsolete view.
Perhaps I should file a yum RFE to make yum not only select mirrors for access
speed, but also for the recentness of their metadata file?
Thanks,Willem Riede.