Paul Howarth wrote:
I think I've found the problem now. I switched to a different mirror and it appears to be working now. If anyone would like to investigate further, the mirror I had problems with was: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os/
Heh, I hit this one too, a while ago. I e-mailed them about it and had a very quick and helpful response from Adam Sampson @ Kent University (I hope he won't mind me reproducing it here):
======================================================================= TJ> One thing I've just noticed though: your responses to HTTP requests TJ> for at least some files return "Cache-control: no-store" in the TJ> response, [...] Is this intentional? AS> Yes, I'm afraid; it's configured to do that for all RPM files. It's AS> a workaround for a bug in yum -- if I recall correctly, it makes AS> requests for byte ranges in files but gets confused if it gets a AS> full (rather than partial) response from our frontend caches (or AS> other caches further down the line, which is why we serve that AS> header to users too). AS> We're not especially fond of it ourselves, but we got a lot of AS> complaints from Red Hat/Fedora users before it was in place! We AS> reported the bug to the upstream maintainers, so hopefully we'll be AS> able to get rid of the workaround in the future, once all the users AS> of older versions of yum have upgraded... ======================================================================= Does anyone know any more about this? (e.g. yum bug #) I would change the MockTricks page, but I don't have permissions. Tim -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
