Slow propagation of updates to mirrors?

[George N. White III]

On Sun, 4 May 2008, Brian Morrison wrote:

> 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.

Something has been expanding the list of mirrors into my repo files,
putting a long list of sites after baseurl, and commenting the
mirrors line.  Unless it updates that list, it could be trying to
use sites that aren't getting updates.

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George N. White III  <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>