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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