[Fedora TeX Live] f17 texlive repository broken?

Johannes Lips johannes.lips at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 20:09:49 CEST 2012


Andrew McNabb wrote:
> José Matos <jamatos at ...> writes:
>>
>> I suspect that it could be a transient behaviour due to the latest
>> packages update.
>>
>> Probably you were unlucky and updated during a small window when the
>> metadata was inconsistent, at least I remember other cases where the
>> failure reason was this.
>
> I experienced this problem, too, and the window was quite large. I refreshed
> the directory index[1] and noticed that package timestamps were being updated
> one at a time (in alphabetical order). It's hard to say exactly what the
> window was, but the repo was down for starting at at least 10:00 am local
> time, and by 5:00 pm, it was still at "tex-lshort". I'm guessing the total
> downtime was probably around 15 to 20 hours.
I think the reason for this were not changes to the repo but changes to 
the servers, which were done by the fedora infrastructure team.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-July/003092.html

I think this could explain the problems accessing the repo.

Johannes
>
> Are updates happening over rsync?  If so, would it be possible in the future
> to use the "--delay-updates" option, which would minimize this problem?
>
> [1] http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2012/packages.fc17/
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