Up2date replacement

[Willem Riede]

On 11/26/2005 12:00:58 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 14:55 -0700, Don Springall wrote:
> > I  currently find that updating in fedora is a hit and miss proposition and
> > I do not trust any of them. I ran yumex this morning and it reports nothing
> > to update. The same with pup. I run up2date and it finds updates. 
> > Obliviously yumex and pup decided to use some not uptodate mirror.
> 
> pup uses the exact same configuration as yum itself does.  Which means
> that it uses the mirror list by default.  One thing we want to do is add
> a nicer way of doing persistent mirror selection, but I don't know that
> we'll definitely get to it by FC5.  up2date points to the main download
> site by default (which is less good, IMHO, from a bandwidth perspective)

Like Don I've been annoyed at times with out-of-date mirrors. That makes 
sequential runs of yum inconsistent. All the time, I see things like:

[root at serve ~]# yum list mach
Setting up repositories
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:01
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
mach.x86_64                              0.4.8-1.fc4            extras
[root at serve ~]# yum list mach
Setting up repositories
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 826 kB    00:01
extras    : ################################################## 2350/2350
Added 22 new packages, deleted 53 old in 1.59 seconds
[root at serve ~]# yum list mach
Setting up repositories
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 838 kB    00:05
extras    : ################################################## 2381/2381
Added 53 new packages, deleted 22 old in 1.61 seconds
Available Packages
mach.x86_64                              0.4.8-1.fc4            extras

where a repository oscilates between today's view and some obsolete view.

Perhaps I should file a yum RFE to make yum not only select mirrors for access 
speed, but also for the recentness of their metadata file?

Thanks,Willem Riede.