yum mirrors not in sync

Javier Perez pepebuho at gmail.com
Wed May 17 09:31:16 UTC 2006


I want to second on this.
What is happening to the updates repository?
This is crazy. If I want to do a rational yum update I have to keep
disabling the updates repo.
What can I do about it?

Javier


On 5/12/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>
> For the past couple of weeks or so, the various mirrors for fedora updates
> (at least) have not even been close to sync'ed with the main repo or each
> other.  Many posters have reported problems that come down to un-sync'ed
> mirrors -- though yum may be making it worse by changing mirrors on each
> file of a transaction (?).
>
> I frequently have to Ctrl-c out of yum and "yum clean metadata" after a
> mirror that is far in the past deletes hundreds of updates.  I sometimes
> have to re-issue the original command after "repodata does not match
> checksum" and "no more mirrors to try" -- it usually works on the second
> (or third try), with the same metadata as before.  I have a workaround
> that
> I won't mention here, as it doesn't scale.
>
> For FC4, there were local mirror lists, such as .us.east or .uk.  I don't
> see this for FC5.  Should there be local mirror lists for FC5?
>
> I don't see any bugs on the sync issue, but I may not be looking at the
> right place (Fedora Infrastructure/unspecified/update system).
>
> Do others feel that this is a current problem with yum updates?
>
> Should I file a bug, and where?
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