Mirrorlist missing mirrors?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Mar 22 01:12:22 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 19:07 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 3/21/06, Elliot Lee <sopwith at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, do you know if yum does the mirror selection on a per-file basis or
> > once for all the downloads for a particular repo during a particular
> > session?
> >
> > Out of syncedness should only really be an issue for rawhide...
> 
> Uhm... while i respect the "should only" point of view.. it was
> definitely happening with the redirector for core and updates.

I was seeing this last night as well.  Repeatedly retrying the yum
update make it finally succeed.  Presumably because it picked a new
mirror finally.

I have to agree with Jef here in that it does look like a regression to
the everyday user.

josh




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