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Re: [opensuse-factory] 'Offline' update sources are not refreshed for ZYPP
- From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:30:16 +0200
- Message-id: <20060618143016.GA27751@xxxxxxx>
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:20:56PM +0200, Jürgen Mell wrote:
> On Friday 16 June 2006 11:30, Herbert Graeber wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 16. Juni 2006 10:55 schrieb Jürgen Mell:
> > > I have a strange problem here: I have several machines running SUSE
> > > 10.1 here so I am rsync-ing the patches from one of the mirror servers
> > > to a local directory on my server here. This local directory is set up
> > > as an installation source in YaST (type YUM) and 'Update' is set to
> > > 'ON'. Now, when fresh patches arrive, they wil not be recognized.
> > > Neither restarting the ZMD service nor using 'Refresh' from the
> > > software update applet nor rebooting the machines helps. Only if I
> > > remove the installation source in YAST and add it back again, the new
> > > patches are detected.
> > >
> > > The same happens, if there are new versions of non-patches available
> > > (eg. from Packman). Selecting the package and function 'Update' in
> > > YaST does not work, as it still shows only the old version available.
> > >
> > > Is this intended behaviour or should a file a bug report?
> >
> > This can happen when the directory is not properly mirrored. Expecially
> > using the --size-only option cannot be used for mirroring rpm-md
> > repositories.
> >
> > Another possiblity is that a mirror itsslf is in an inconsistent shape.
> > The sometimes happens to the packman mirrors.
> >
> > I think no bugreport is neccessarry.
>
> I do not think that there was a mirroring problem. The updates are not
> recognized, until I remove the installation source in YaST and then
> re-add it. After that (and without any changes to the mirrored directory)
> they ARE detected. So I would believe that the contents of the directory
> itself are ok but somehow the changes are not detected.
Please submit a bugreport, with all YaST and ZMD logfiles.
There is a bug in ZMD when a source is "not reachable" that it never
picks up this source again while its running, perhaps it is the same issue.
Ciao, Marcus
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> On Friday 16 June 2006 11:30, Herbert Graeber wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 16. Juni 2006 10:55 schrieb Jürgen Mell:
> > > I have a strange problem here: I have several machines running SUSE
> > > 10.1 here so I am rsync-ing the patches from one of the mirror servers
> > > to a local directory on my server here. This local directory is set up
> > > as an installation source in YaST (type YUM) and 'Update' is set to
> > > 'ON'. Now, when fresh patches arrive, they wil not be recognized.
> > > Neither restarting the ZMD service nor using 'Refresh' from the
> > > software update applet nor rebooting the machines helps. Only if I
> > > remove the installation source in YAST and add it back again, the new
> > > patches are detected.
> > >
> > > The same happens, if there are new versions of non-patches available
> > > (eg. from Packman). Selecting the package and function 'Update' in
> > > YaST does not work, as it still shows only the old version available.
> > >
> > > Is this intended behaviour or should a file a bug report?
> >
> > This can happen when the directory is not properly mirrored. Expecially
> > using the --size-only option cannot be used for mirroring rpm-md
> > repositories.
> >
> > Another possiblity is that a mirror itsslf is in an inconsistent shape.
> > The sometimes happens to the packman mirrors.
> >
> > I think no bugreport is neccessarry.
>
> I do not think that there was a mirroring problem. The updates are not
> recognized, until I remove the installation source in YaST and then
> re-add it. After that (and without any changes to the mirrored directory)
> they ARE detected. So I would believe that the contents of the directory
> itself are ok but somehow the changes are not detected.
Please submit a bugreport, with all YaST and ZMD logfiles.
There is a bug in ZMD when a source is "not reachable" that it never
picks up this source again while its running, perhaps it is the same issue.
Ciao, Marcus
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