seth vidal wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 10:45 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: >> I have a local NFS and HTTP mirror of rawhide (rsync from kernel.org) >> that I use on my test i686 box for installs and updates. >> >> Lately I am seeing an unusual behaviour with respect to using the local >> mirror in conjunction with the "standard" mirrorlist configuration. >> >> In "fedora-rawhide.repo" I install the local mirror as a "file://" entry >> and leave mirrorlist enabled. (The mirror is uptodate and properly >> mounted via NFS to the machine in question.) >> >> The "Update System" process uses the local mirror to get headers and >> resolve dependencies (evidence: no activity on the internet connection >> via a router/switch during that phase of update process) >> >> However, after dependency resolution, the system goes to the internet to >> download the packages and seems to ignore the local repo. (Evidence: it >> takes time to download each file and the internet gateway is showing >> appropriate activity for each file downloaded.) >> >> If I disable the "mirrorlist" in an attempt to force all local activity, >> the system gives up on loading filelist2.sqlite.bz2 and reports no more >> mirrors available for several files that *are* on the local repository. > > Then likely the local mirror's metadata is not properly in sync with > what yum thinks it has. Which is why it switching above. You may not be > seeing the mirror switch but it's doing it. > > > Try grabbing this > http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/verifytree.py > > and running it against your local mirror to see if it is consistent. > > thanks, > -sv Thank you, seth! It claims that comps.xml (group) is not good. I'll try to force a new download from the mirror and see if it clears up. -- Wolfe -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
