On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 14:31 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Fri, 2005-28-10 at 02:10 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > I think implementing the last-modified check in the repomd.xml grab > > might be the lightest-weight way. If we have a way of checking the last > > modified timestamp we might be able to use that to make sure yum ignores > > out-of-date mirrors. > > The best is to introduce something like <last-build> into the > repomd.xml. That's to throw away the mirrors with timestamps older than > the one we have in cache. There's really no other way to do it, since > mirrors can be fubar'd and have incorrect timestamps on the files > themselves. > but then you still have to fetch and store the repomd.xml, somewhere while you figure out if the current one is okay just an arse pain. -sv
