mirrorlist plugin broken?
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sat Jul 29 12:24:54 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 14:21 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
>
> seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
>
> > 1. is there a proxy running somewhere which might be returning bogus
> > results?
>
> There is no proxy.
>
> > 2. put each of those urls into your repo file as the one and sole
> > baseurl - then you can tell which is which.
>
> Of course this is no longer happening now that I am trying to
> figure it out.
>
> > 3. The mirrorlist cgi does the following:
> > - take repomd.xml from the canonical mirror at redhat.com - get
> > timestamp from inside file of the primary.xml.gz entry
> > - downlowd repomd.xml from each of the mirrors and compare this value
> > - only mirrors where the value is the same are kept
>
> How often is this done?
every hour.
> Would it be possible to make yum output the URI of every file it
> tries to retrieve on some debug level?
probably.
-sv
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