new metadata format for repositories
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Jan 21 03:15:09 UTC 2004
> I was trying to update a lot of packages through both up2date and
> through yum. I still am having problems with the noarch rpms. The rpms
> start to download, then stall up2date or kill yum. Below is a list of
> the files that I am having problems with downloading.
I'm very confused - what does this have to do with the metadata work?
> automake14-1.4p6-8.noarch.rpm
> automake-1.8.2-1.noarch.rpm
> docbook-style-xsl-1.64.1-5.noarch.rpm
> ghostscript-7.07-17.i386.rpm
> ghostscript-fonts-8.11-1.noarch.rpm
> gnome-icon-theme-1.1.5-1.noarch.rpm
> gnome-vfs2-2.5.5-2.i386.rpm
> gnome-vfs2-devel-2.5.5-2.i386.rpm
> hwdata-0.103-1.noarch.rpm
> repodata
> system-config-language-1.1.5-1.noarch.rpm
> system-config-samba-1.2.2-1.noarch.rpm
> system-config-users-1.2.8-1.noarch.rpm
setup multiple mirrors in your /etc/yum.conf
[someserver]
name=myserver
baseurl = url://server/bar/path
url://otherserver/bar/path
url://stillotherserver/bar/path
etc etc
>
>
> The ghostscripts downloaded alright. The noarch stalled. I then tried
> out the generation script for the standardized repodata on these files.
> The generation went successful. It generated the below files within the
> repodata directory.
>
cool
> 29437 Jan 20 21:08 filelists.xml.gz
> 21249 Jan 20 21:08 other.xml.gz
> 5689 Jan 20 21:08 primary.xml.gz
> 666 Jan 20 21:08 repomd.xml
those sizes seem about right on average.
-sv
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