On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:44:39 -0400, John Mellor wrote: > My recalled experience has been that the > Gnome updater is not finding even 5-day-old updates, but assuming that > some weird preferred repo out there is totally broken, I'm willing to > test that thesis. A fundamental problem is that everything is focused on the master repo only, which is not supposed to be the primary place from where to download the updates. Announcements of updates are sent as soon as stuff has been published in the master repo. Update system ticket state details reflect whether an update has been published in that repo, but _not_ whether it is available to everyone via the world-wide mirrors. You read about an update, but the package updater tools don't "see" the update yet, because they examine nearby mirrors and may only get access to older repo contents that way. It can take hours (or days even) for mirrors to sync with the master repo *and* end up in a usable state (i.e. not cause 404 Not Found errors for packages that have not been mirrored yet, for example). https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4866 is only the tip of the iceberg. The burden of choosing a mirror from the list of advertised mirrors has been put onto the shoulders of the developers of repo metadata downloaders. They need to decide themselves whether to do "expensive" mirror crawling, for example, in search of a nearby mirror that is up-to-date, complete and usable, too. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
