yum broken; headers directory missing

Ed Fletcher ed at fletcher.ca
Sun Mar 28 20:40:23 UTC 2004


I'm wondering if FC2T1 has been taken down deliberately to get ready for 
Test Two.  The schedule seems to show that Test Two will be out 
tomorrow:  http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/

Is there any way to confirm this?

--
Ed Fletcher
ed at fletcher.ca

"Ignorance more frequently begets
confidence than does knowledge."
- Charles Darwin

At 09:17 PM 3/28/04 +0100, Cam wrote:
>Michael
>
>Thanks for your reply. One last comment...
>
>>>* finally, generally inefficient behaviour (downloading headers one by 
>>>one instead of having a compressed archive of headers
>>
>>Yes and no.  Headers are already compressed.  The only advantage there
>>would be doing a single download instead of many.  HTTP keepalive
>>helps a lot because you only use one HTTP connection.  Also, what you
>>propose would involve actually downloading MORE.  Yum doesn't keep
>>headers for rpms you have installed, so you'd need to download a whole
>>bunch of EXTRA headers.  Finally, what happens when only a few
>>packages get downloaded?  Surely, you don't want to download the whole
>>tarball again.  [perhaps you were only talking about the initial
>>setup, though]
>
>What happens is probably fair on the server but from the client's point of 
>view, if you have to get all the headers when the server is under load you 
>can see pauses between the downloads. If it's using HTTP keeplive then 
>it's probably already doing a fair job under heavy load.
>
>
>>The next major version will almost certainly have better timeout
>>control.
>...
>>Next version will also support REGET for that case.  You'll pick up
>>where you left off.
>
>Sounds good. I wonder, does the download.redhat.com server accept rsync 
>connections from mere mortals? I'm tempted to sync the lot to a local 
>server and update from that :)





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