yum mirrors not in sync

[Javier Perez]

On 5/17/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Tony Nelson wrote:
> > At 4:31 AM -0500 5/17/06, Javier Perez wrote:
> >
> >> 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?
> >> 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?
> >
> > Well, disabling the "updates" repo would pretty much ruin doing updates,
> so
> > I don't think that's a good workaround.  You could pick a single (good)
> > mirror out of the mirrorlist and stick with that one.  Use the
> mirrorlist
> > URL in a web browser to get the mirrors for a repo, and edit the repo
> file
> > to use that as a base url instead.  (Apparantly several base urls can be
> > listed, if you want more than one mirror.)
> >
> > I'm still not sure if this is a widespread problem (though I don't see
> how
> > it could not be).
>
> It is from time to time, Tony.  A few hours wait seems to fix it, usually.
>
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Sorry Gene, but it has been going on for more than two weeks already!

I thought a few hours would fix it but it hasn't. I think it is past time
the
people doing the "updates" mirrors got together and start comparing
notes. It does not seem to go away automgically like other synchronization
issues

Javier

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