At 8:41 AM +0100 12/20/07, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: ... >And, BTW, what's exactly the problem with "moving target for all >mirrors"? There were (are?) yum problems iirc (1), but I suppose we can >fix them if we want? > >CU >thl > >(1) -- downloading metadata from one mirror, download error on it, >switching to another mirror that has even new push where the file yum >tries to download is already is gone again I used to have trouble with that until I wrote StableMirror. Among other things, it makes sure that each mirror it uses has the same date as the cached metadata, by checking the tiny repomd.xml when it switches mirrors. <http://georgeanelson.com/stablemirror.htm> -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
