F10: yum update broken

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Apr 23 16:45:47 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> said:
> ...following this plan means that the entire repo. on the mirror should
> update atomically at step #iv. And rsync --delte-after --delay-updates
> is almost the same (it merges steps #ii and #iii).

There is still a big assumption in there: that mirrors will only sync
from an in-sync mirror.  If a mirror starts syncing from the master
while new content is being pushed (IIRC the primary masters do not use
the equivalent of --delay-updates), the mirror will get an incomplete
sync.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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