Problem with F17 yum requesting old repodata?

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 24/11/12 05:37 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> said:

>> It should also be normally trying multiple mirrors, not a bunch of
>> times to the same one. :(

[...]

> Actually, when I account for the different hashes and arches, the
> failing requests for updates/17/*/repodata/*-other.sqlite.bz2 files are
> accounting for almost 2/3 of all HTTP requests to my mirror.  I am not
> seeing any FTP requests; does yum try FTP these days?
>
> It doesn't appear to be causing any problem (no load impact, just bigger
> logs; the daily error_log isn't usually 250MB+) on my mirror, but I
> expect it is causing issues for clients.

This is what I get for the last few days:


# yum --skip-broken update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-x86_64          |  951 B     00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates      | 3.3 kB     00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates   | 3.3 kB     00:00
updates/17/x86_64/metalink  |  16 kB     00:00
updates                     | 4.7 kB     00:00
00c7410a78aa8dd0f4934ed4935377 FAILED HTTP Error 404 - Not Found : 
http://ftp.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/fedora/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/00c7410a78aa8dd0f4934ed4935377b99e0339101cee369c1b1691f3025950ac-primary.sqlite.bz2
http://ftp.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/fedora/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/00c7410a78aa8dd0f4934ed4935377b99e0339101cee369c1b1691f3025950ac-primary.sqlite.bz2: 
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found : 
http://ftp.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/fedora/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/00c7410a78aa8dd0f4934ed4935377b99e0339101cee369c1b1691f3025950ac-primary.sqlite.bz2
Trying other mirror.
updates/primary_db          | 6.9 MB     00:06
updates/group_gz            | 435 kB     00:00
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ctags.x86_64 0:5.8-7.fc17 will be updated
---> Package ctags.x86_64 0:5.8-9.fc17 will be an update
---> Package dbus.x86_64 1:1.4.10-6.fc17 will be updated
---> Package dbus.x86_64 1:1.4.10-7.fc17 will be an update
...

-- 
Dariusz