On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, David Timms wrote: > >> what do you think ? > These messages are showing that the mirror downloaded from does not have > the most current repomd. You might infer that it also does not have the > most current repodata nor packages. In that case it would be better for > yum to move along the mirrorlist trying to check if there is a more or > same timestamped repomd. > > If yum instead did what you suggest, it may well be unable to find > packages that the Current metadata suggest, because it is trying the > stale mirror it downloaded the old metadata indicator from. > > Or perhaps my logic is absurd.. Your logic is not absurd. If yum downloaded all the metadata from one point then that point would be come a bottleneck, badly. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
