rpms not in repodata

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Wed Oct 15 21:04:08 UTC 2008


On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:48:18 -0700, Matthew Kent wrote:

> Wanted to double check that this is expected:
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/SRPMS/repodata/primary.xml.gz
> 
> only lists the 2 most recent nagios-plugins releases while on disk we
> have
> 
> nagios-plugins-1.4.11-2.el5.src.rpm
> nagios-plugins-1.4.13-4.el5.src.rpm
> nagios-plugins-1.4.6-3.el5.src.rpm
> 
> Goes against what I've typically seen of repodata reflecting the
> contents of all rpms in the folder. In fact we have a script written on
> this assumption, is it incorrect?
> 
> Thanks for all the hard work, EPEL is very handy :)

Looks somewhat as if the rsync script to Red Hat possibly doesn't
delete the old packages.

I no longer know how to log in to buildsys.fedoraproject.org to check the
primary repository where RepoPrune is run. After the incident, hosts have
been moved around, and I couldn't find docs in the Wiki...




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