F10: yum update broken

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Thu Apr 23 01:35:23 UTC 2009


Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:08:26 +0300
> Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
>
>   
>> It's much simpler. You just do the update in 2 passes
>>  - first you download the new packages      # old content is there,
>> old repodata is there, so no breakage
>> - second you download the repodata and delete old content #content is 
>> already there, new repodata will point users to it.
>>
>>     
> You don't even need two passes. See: 
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring
>
> --delete-after --delay-updates 
>
> with rsync should (mostly) be atomic. 
>
> kevin
>
>   
If the mirrors are following this guideline and rsync works like stated, 
then why do we keep hitting broken mirrors when there is a big sync?

Regards,
Gerry




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