A quick look at the yum mirrorlists

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Sat Jul 9 23:20:17 UTC 2005


On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:50:56PM -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> After getting sick of yum trying to parse 404 Not Found error HTML as
> repomd.xml (btw, Seth: yum will try to parse 404 Not Found error HTML as
> repomd.xml), I used a quick mirror validation script of my own creation
> (see below) on the official FC 4 mirror lists and determined that a lot
> of the mirrors in that list really shouldn't be there.
> 
> http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/4/ppc/os/
> 	HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
> http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/ppc/
> 	HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
> http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/testing/4/ppc/
> 	HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

  How many are using ppc ? I didn't had much space until a few hours ago
to add it, but I'm still pondering the effectiveness of the use of the
disk space. Apparently I'm not the only one, 

Daniel

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