F10: yum update broken

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Thu Apr 23 02:38:31 UTC 2009


Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Those mirrors should be identified and removed from the mirror lists. 
> Yum should be able to report to some entity about a problem mirror. 
> Sure, not automatically but after someone in Fedora rel-eng reviews 
> the reports. Perhaps ask the user when an error occurs: Do you wish to 
> report a problem?
>
> Reportable reasons:
> 1) performance issues (high latency)
> 2) dependency errors
> 3) missing files
>
> Possibly more. Most of all I'm tired of hitting a high latency mirror 
> and the only way around it is to add it to my /etc/hosts file as 
> localhost so that it will error and go on to a faster mirror.
>
I just add those to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf:

exclude=MIRROR MIRROR MIRROR


Regards,
Gerry




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