On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 22:07 +0100, Steven Moix wrote: > I was suggesting this from a guy-who-reads-user-forums standpoint. The > Fedora update mirrors are often out of sync for 1-3 days, which fills > the forums almost every day with users who don't understand what's going > on when they have dependency problems. My understanding was the MM wanted mirrors to be in sync. within a day, and as long as the metadata is within sync. it is almost "free" to switch mirrors to find metadata/packages now (just get 404s and move along). > I'm fully aware that this is a dirty hack, but it could solve just that > problem, now there are side effects of course. To be fair, there is a much less dirty hack of just setting "skip_broken = true" in yum.conf (it's in the man page :p). And this might be turned on a some point, but as other people have said before that happens we really want: . Lots of checking server side (repoclosure type stuff) to make sure what we push is good. . Lots of testing to make sure skip-broken doesn't make the problem worse (many cases of infinite loops in the past, although it's getting close now). -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
