Up2date replacement
Willem Riede
wrrhdev at riede.org
Sat Nov 26 15:10:49 UTC 2005
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Like Don I've been annoyed at times with out-of-date mirrors.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.
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