Re: Up2date replacement

[Don Springall]

Could not get your "bestmirror" to work. Got below when running. Code is 
from your attachment at 
http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-devel/attachments/20051205/0ce4...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 92, in main
    result, resultmsgs = do()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 472, in doCommands
    return self.updatePkgs()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 950, in updatePkgs
    self.doRepoSetup()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 72, in doRepoSetup
    yum.YumBase.doRepoSetup(self, thisrepo=thisrepo)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 239, in 
doRepoSetup
    self.plugins.run('postreposetup')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 159, in run
    func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/bestmirror.py", line 78, in postreposetup_hook
    read_timedhosts()
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/bestmirror.py", line 96, in read_timedhosts
    host, time, age = line.split()
ValueError: need more than 2 values to unpack


> From: Willem Riede <wrrhdev(a)riede.org&gt;
> Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases 
> <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
> To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Up2date replacement
> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:03:53 +0000
>
> On 11/26/2005 10:55:12 AM, seth vidal wrote:
>  > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 15:50 +0000, Willem Riede wrote:
>  > > On 11/26/2005 10:18:45 AM, seth vidal wrote:
>  > > > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 15:10 +0000, Willem Riede wrote:
>  > > > >
>  > > > > 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?
>  > > >
>  > > > what we had considered was using the fastest mirror plugin to sort 
> the
>  > > > list of mirrors. Then store that sorted list in the repo cache
>  > > > directory. Then redownload the list and re-sort/store it every 8 
> hours
>  > > > or so, same as how we're storing the repomd.xml data, now.
>  > >
>  > > So is something like that going to happen, or do I need to give an 
> extra
>  > > (RFE) nudge?  :-)
>  >
>  > an rfe is not going to nudge anything. Submitting the code is going to
>  > make it happen faster.
>
> So I posted a variant to the fastestmirror plugin that does what I 
> described
> here:
> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-devel/2005-December/001715.html
> but so far noone has reacted to it there - maybe the fedora community has 
> more
> interest?
>
> Regards, Willem Riede.
>

Up2date replacement

[Willem Riede]

On 12/07/2005 07:33:30 PM, Don Springall wrote:
>  Could not get your "bestmirror" to work. Got below when
> running. Code is  
>  from your attachment at  
>
> http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-devel/attachments/20051205/0ce4...
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) 
[snip]
>   File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/bestmirror.py", line 96, in
> read_timedhosts
>     host, time, age = line.split()
>  ValueError: need more than 2 values to unpack 
Ah, I hadn't considered that, but if you've run fastestmirror before, you'll 

need to delete "/var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt" before trying bestmirror (and  
when you switch back, if you do). I guess I should have used a different  
filename :-(

Thanks, Willem Riede.

Up2date replacement

[Don Springall]

Ok dropped "/var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt" and "bestmirror.py" plugin
now 
works. Thanks. Didn't see any messages about checksum errors so this is much 
better than "fastestmirror-persistent.py"

Willem Riede: please let me know if you have any updates to bestmirror.py in 
future. Thanks.
Perhaps we can get Fedora to add this to yum package if we get more people 
testing it.

Up2date replacement

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 18:30 -0700, Don Springall wrote:
>  Willem Riede: please let me know if you have any updates to
> bestmirror.py in 
>  future. Thanks.
>  Perhaps we can get Fedora to add this to yum package if we get more people 
>  testing it. 
yum-utils -> extras.

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