On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: >> If you have out of sync. mirrors frequently enough that this is >> a problem, you should also turn on --unique-md-filenames. > the file I'm talking about (repomd.xml) is not affected by > --unique-md-filenames. but repomd.xml isn't at issue, actually. The metadata you're concerned with is impacted by --unique-md-filenames. >> Better yet, provide a cryptographic signature of the repomd.xml - which yum now supports. > >> Or, alternatively, provide all the mirror info in a file like repomd.xml - but in the metalinks format, which yum also now supports. > > does fedora uses those two feature yet I believe the metalinks one will be available and fedora SHOULD be gpg signing repomd.xml files in F10 though I'm not positive what the status is on that. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum