dnf metalink issue: Fedora Updates repo

[Radek Holy]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin at scrye.com>
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 5:57:58 PM
> Subject: Re: dnf metalink issue: Fedora Updates repo
> 
> There's an issue with the f20 updates repo metalink in mirrormanager.
> 
> We were hoping to have it fixed up quickly, but it's of course proving
> more difficult than it seems at first. ;(
> 
> Anyhow, folks are working on it, and we hope to have it fixed later
> today.
> 
> I'd suggest just waiting to grab updates until then, or if you need
> something right away from the f20 updates repo you can edit your repo
> file and comment the metalink and uncomment the baseurl. If you do
> that, please remember to move it back once this is fixed as the
> metalink provides normally many advantages over the baseurl.

Yes, one of the advantages is that it provides a checksum of "repomd.xml". And that's why was DNF failing (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219283) -- the checksum of "repomd.xml" stored on the mirrors did not match the checksum provided by the metalink. Personally, I'd be afraid of switching to baseurl because of that.

> Sorry for the trouble.
> 
> kevin
> 
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Radek Holý
Associate Software Engineer
Software Management Team
Red Hat Czech