Slow propagation of updates to mirrors?

Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir.org.uk
Sun May 4 21:04:10 UTC 2008


On Sun, 4 May 2008 12:24:27 -0400 (EDT)
Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> wrote:

> > How does one get that fixed? I've seen at least 5 occasions where
> > updates notified have taken 3, 4 or more days to appear when running a
> > yum update.
> 
> Just to throw my hat in on this one, sometimes this can be expedited by 
> issuing a 'yum clean all', followed by 'yum update'. In this way, you 
> force yum to retrieve (hopefully) newer header/info files with more recent 
> updates.

Tried that already, the files are not there on the mirrors, therefore
no amount of trying to get the metadata updated will help.

-- 

Brian Morrison

   "Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in the mud;
    after a while you realize you are muddy and the pig is enjoying it."




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