Yum, Proxy Cache Safety, Storage Backend

[Warren Togami]

Les Mikesell wrote:
>> The yum developers have an erroneous assumption that only "broken" 
>> proxies are at fault for yum problems.  I have described at the 
>> beginning of this thread that this assumption is false.  *Any* proxy 
>> server that does caching will occasionally cause the partial sync yum 
>> failure, or resigned RPMS will cause a failure.
> 
> I'm missing something here.  A cache is only going to resend what it got 
> the first time.  If the first user got the right thing, so will the 
> second.  If the first user got something wrong, don't blame the cache 
> for it.
> 
>> Fortunately, the yum developers were already thinking about using 
>> unique (probably SHA1) names of repodata as of yum-3.2.9 for other 
>> reasons. This should solve the common partial sync failure in Fedora 9+.
> 
> This should be needed to fix the first user's problem as much as 
> subsequent ones.

Read the original post of this thread again.  You completely missed the 
point of that post, which was NOT your problem at all.

Warren