Re: centralized metadata for security

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, David Timms wrote:

>
>> what do you think ?
> These messages are showing that the mirror downloaded from does not have
> the most current repomd. You might infer that it also does not have the
> most current repodata nor packages. In that case it would be better for
> yum to move along the mirrorlist trying to check if there is a more or
> same timestamped repomd.
>
> If yum instead did what you suggest, it may well be unable to find
> packages that the Current metadata suggest, because it is trying the
> stale mirror it downloaded the old metadata indicator from.
>
> Or perhaps my logic is absurd..

Your logic is not absurd. If yum downloaded all the metadata from one 
point then that point would be come a bottleneck, badly.

-sv