On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:50 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: > After getting sick of yum trying to parse 404 Not Found error HTML as > repomd.xml (btw, Seth: yum will try to parse 404 Not Found error HTML as > repomd.xml), I used a quick mirror validation script of my own creation > (see below) on the official FC 4 mirror lists and determined that a lot > of the mirrors in that list really shouldn't be there. > Missed a few, mostly because they're 404 but returning 302 (now I see what Seth was complaining about). http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/ppc/os/ HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found) http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/x86_64/os/ HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found) http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/ppc/ HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found) http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/x86_64/ HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found) http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/ppc/ HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found) http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/x86_64/ HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found (but replies with HTTP/1.1 302 Found) This makes me wonder if the IPv6 versions even work. I can't test that, but it would be nice if somebody with IPv6 connectivity would take a look. -- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list