[CentOS-mirror] Abusive repodata downloads

Wed Apr 3 08:33:27 UTC 2024
Carsten Otto <otto at informatik.rwth-aachen.de>

On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 05:08:33PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> In general clients should pull the repomd.xml file and check if it's
> changed, if not, use their cached versions.

Does this also apply to this file?
/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/f25bccaa54b08e731162aec431dd82887a5ed1abce8eb6f892ad41454f07e1f3-primary.sqlite.bz2

I have five hosts which each downloaded 4 GByte of this file in the span
of 24 hours. The delay between two downloads varies, from a few seconds
to a few minutes.
-- 
Dr. Carsten Otto
http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/
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