FC12 update repo broken?

[Matt Domsch]

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.

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look for which mirrors might be out of date.  But if a mirror is more
than 2 days out of date, yum won't try to use it anyhow (due to the
mirrorlists including information only for the most recent 2 days), so
a mirror can't be "too" stale.)

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO