F10: yum update broken

[Gerry Reno]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:35:23 -0400, Gerry wrote:
>
>   
>> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:08:26 +0300
>>> Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy@> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> It's much simpler. You just do the update in 2 passes
>>>>  - first you download the new packages      # old content is there,
>>>> old repodata is there, so no breakage
>>>> - second you download the repodata and delete old content #content is 
>>>> already there, new repodata will point users to it.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> You don't even need two passes. See: 
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring
>>>
>>> --delete-after --delay-updates 
>>>
>>> with rsync should (mostly) be atomic. 
>>>
>>> kevin
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> If the mirrors are following this guideline and rsync works like stated, 
>> then why do we keep hitting broken mirrors when there is a big sync?
>>     
>
> I'd rather (1) examine your Yum plugins and their configuration, and (2)
> verify with your favourite browser that the needed packages are really not
> found in the remote repository. Save a copy of the repo metadata directory
> _and_ the directory listing as proof.
>
> There's enough evidence that your Yum excludes some packages it should not
> exclude. One example ("rpm") given in my previous reply. Here's another:
>
> ---> Package netpbm.i386 0:10.35.61-1.fc10 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: netpbm = 10.35.58-1.fc10 for package: netpbm-progs
> netpbm-progs-10.35.58-1.fc10.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: netpbm = 10.35.58-1.fc10 is needed by package   
> netpbm-progs-10.35.58-1.fc10.i386 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: netpbm = 10.35.58-1.fc10 is needed by package 
> netpbm-progs-10.35.58-1.fc10.i386 (installed)
>
>
> The new netpbm from April 2nd is seen, but its sub-packages are not seen
> although they should be found in the same metadata. This has nothing to do
> with "mirror not in sync" unless bodhi has had a senior moment...
>
> netpbm-10.35.61-1.fc10 bugfix update
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-3273
> bodhi - 2009-04-02 17:21:01
> This update has been pushed to stable
>
>   
It was something with the metadata on this machine because after a 
couple hours the problem was still there so I did a 'yum clean all' and 
then it straightened out and 'yum update' began working again.

Regards,
Gerry