From: seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu>
Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Up2date replacement
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:22:44 -0500
> Well, here's a quick-n-dirty proof of concept version of
fastestmirror
> with persistent cache of mirror response times:
>
http://laiskiainen.org/yum/plugins/fastestmirror/fastestmirror-persistent.py
>
> Certainly makes a big difference, a no-op 'yum update' on my system is
> around 11s when all mirrors are timed on each run, with the above
> version the consecutive runs come down to ~5s.
Well I gave your plugin a spin, seems to work as advertised, however saw
this message:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/i386/repodata/primary.x...:
[Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
Is this an indication that the first mirror picked was out of date with the
repo file from Fedora ?