repo-mirrorlist quality control?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/25/2015 04:10 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 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.
No.

> If not, then it's indeed those mirrors that are out of sync.

These mirrors are out of sync. Whether you like it or not, mirrormanager 
is dysfunctional.

It is a provable matter of fact that it points users (yum, mock, ...) to 
broken and out of sync mirrors.

Ralf