Slow propagation of updates to mirrors?

[Max Pyziur]

On Sun, 4 May 2008, Brian Morrison wrote:

> On Sat, 3 May 2008 19:19:03 -0500
> Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
>
>>> Yes, I've noticed that. I looked at several mirrors earlier in the UK
>>> and US and none of them had any of these updates.
>>
>> Then it's unlikely that the packages made it out of bodhi and to the
>> master mirror for all the other mirrors to pick up.
>
> 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.

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com

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