On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 07:04 -0600, David Farning wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 01:13 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > I think the reposed.xml file will help this somewhat b/c it will include > > an internal datestamp of the files inside of it and it's really quite > > small, so transferring it shouldn't put much load on things. > > > > Essentially we need to have a way of making sure mirrors get the > > repodata dir LAST to the other actual packages. > The only true fix is to make yum rugged enough realize that it is > working with an out of date mirror. > > Ya, a timestamp within repomd.xml would help--but isn't that a pretty > big file-- hence the user would have to download a pretty big chunk to > realize that the mirror they are pointing yo was rolled in Oct of 1962 > no - repomd.xml is tiny. http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/samples/repomd-sample.xml there's a sample - that's the whole file. -sv
