[users] Re: Metadata problems

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

hello

sorry for breaking the threading, I got the plain text digest until now...

> From: Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>
>> I mean, I would admit these errors happening when the external mirrors are
>> not in sync, but if apt.sw.be is not in sync with itself, then I guess the
>> problem is not with yum...
> 
> If that is happening, sure. Proof it to me. Everybody is complaining, but
> nobody is debugging and analysing. Apt and smart does not have this
> problem using the same metadata (but no mirrors).

I'm not sure it's 100% yum on this one: I use apt with a single mirror, 
and I have seen similar (?) errors from time to time.
I thought it was just a temp problem due to the mirror being down or in 
the process of syncing when I query it.
Usually I just ignore it, as it doesn't keep apt from offering updates 
from other repos, and a while later when I try again it works fine.

In case it's useful, I use the following mirror:
http://fr2.rpmfind.net/ linux/dag/redhat/el$(VERSION)/en/$(ARCH)/dag

Next time this happens I'll try to investigate (mirror down or not, and 
save a copy of the repomd.xml and primary.xml.gz if not, anything else I 
should check?) and drop a note to the list.

BTW, to answer someone else's question on this thread: apt doesn't have 
any problems with multilib, it's fast, and it has a great GUI (synaptic, 
very useful for finding software you don't know about).

cheers
Nicolas