FC12 update repo broken?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Mar 30 04:18:03 UTC 2010


On 03/30/2010 05:40 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203 at freenet.de>  wrote:
>> On 03/29/2010 07:44 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
>> My conclusion from this: Either fedora's mirror manager is dysfunctional
>> or rel-eng pushed broken packages.
>
> Or someone mirrored during a push
Isn't this exactly what mirrormanager and the metalinks are supposed to 
prevent to hit the user?

> Or your network path has a transparent cache somewhere which cached bad stuff
No cache/proxy that I am aware about.

> Or the mirror that you got it from is bad and the mirror manager code
> for looking at the last 10 files missed the mirror being bad.
That's what I am suspecting to happen.

I think I'll try a brute-force
"for mirror in $metalink.xml; do
lftp -c get <file in question $mirror;
done"
check for what will happen.

Ralf


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