repo-mirrorlist quality control?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:49:47 +0100
Richard Z <rz at linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> when doing yum update in the last few weeks I am seeing thousands of
> errors like 

...snip...
 
> and
> 
> http://mirror.netcologne.de/fedora/linux/updates/21/i386/drpms/autocorr-en-4.3.5.2-11.fc21_4.3.6.2-3.fc21.noarch.drpm:
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found Trying other mirror.

Does a: 

'yum clean all' 
then retrying help/solve it?

If so, then you have cached metadata thats older than a few days. 
If not, then it's indeed those mirrors that are out of sync. 

> While very rarely some other mirrors have problems, netcologne seems
> to be failing systematically for me.
> 
> Is it just me? Is there some place to report?

You can report it to the mirror-admin list
( https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/mirror-admin) 
Or bring it up to infrastructure folks and we can try and contact the
mirror admins directly for that mirror. 

Perhaps one thing we should revsit is dnf/yum metadata caching times on
the various repos to align with how often we push updates. 

kevin
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