On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 09:14 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > You can test for it by examining the cached metadata files below > /var/cache/yum/updates. Start with the timestamp on "cachecookie". Only if > old enough, Yum loads new metadata. [The default is 1800 seconds in > yum.conf's metadata_expire= value.] Compare timestamp of "repomd.xml" with > the mirror that is assigned to you (file "mirrorlist.txt". Recent Yum > versions ignore mirrors that offer repomd.xml files which are older than > what you've got in your cache. This way you can find mirrors which don't > sync daily. Right, so I see this: in repomd.xml <?xml version="1.0" ?><repomd xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/repo"> In mirrorlist.txt # repo = updates-released-f9 arch = i386 country = AU http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386 http://mirror.3fl.net.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386 http://ringtail.its.monash.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386 I'm not seeing linux.duke.edu in here. Should I? R. > > -- > Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 > loadavg: 1.21 1.17 0.74 > -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list