On Aug 20, 2006, at 12:00 PM, yum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I ended up doing something similar in cvs head. > > Specifically, I added a check. If the ctime of the cooking file was > greater than the current time then assume the metadata needs updating. > > oh and ntp or rdate is your friend. Thanks for the update on this. A minor nit: shouldn't you check ctime>=now rather than ctime>now? My assumption is the two values could only be the same if the clock had been set back at some point after the cookie was written. As I understand it there are reasonably common situations in which NTP can cause the clock to change by a significant amount, so using NTP/rdate alone doesn't solve the problem. For example, dual-boot environments may need to leave the RTC in local time rather than UTC, which can cause trouble during seasonal time changes. Thanks, Steve
