On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 20:56 -0700, Ian Burrell wrote: > I think it would be good to add some detection in yum for out-of-date > mirrors to prevent weird results. The repomd.xml file seems to > include a timestamp for each metadata file. The solution would be to > not allow the timestamp to go backwards. If a newer timestamp has > already been downloaded, then an older timestamp would cause that > mirror to be skipped. The problem with this is that a single corrupt mirror can effectively deny you the ability to update your system if it has metadata that has a date far into the future. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20050728/d48e8128/attachment.bin
