On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 13:09 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > I am getting strange data from the mirrorlist plugin while trying to > update my rawhide machine. > > The line for the development repo is > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch > > The (current) result from this query is > # repo = rawhide country = global arch = i386 > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$ARCH/os/ > http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/development/$ARCH/os/ > > Nonetheless, the repodata I get is quite outdated, it lists dbus-0.62 and > firefox 1.5.0.3, for example. > > Since no amount of debugging will make yum tell which servers it is > retrieving data from I can not tell where the bad data actually comes > from. > 1. is there a proxy running somewhere which might be returning bogus results? 2. put each of those urls into your repo file as the one and sole baseurl - then you can tell which is which. 3. The mirrorlist cgi does the following: - take repomd.xml from the canonical mirror at redhat.com - get timestamp from inside file of the primary.xml.gz entry - downlowd repomd.xml from each of the mirrors and compare this value - only mirrors where the value is the same are kept -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
