[CentOS-mirror] Stale mirror content

Mon Aug 17 16:33:04 UTC 2020
Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org>

We've been noticing this lately on our mirrors too and we sync upstream to
CentOS's primary mirrors. For example, this morning we got dozens of emails
such as these:

Not using downloaded epel/repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:
  Current   : Sun Aug 16 00:47:07 2020
  Downloaded: Sat Aug 15 00:25:46 2020

Unfortunately, I don't have information on which mirror we pulled from
before the time this was run but I can probably update our scripts so we
can track this better. I suspect there might be an issue with one or more
of the upstream mirrors not being in sync sometimes. I wonder if this is
related to the other thread I started regarding centosv4.centos.org being
slow for us.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 6:36 AM Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:

> On 30/07/2020 03:05, Mason Schmitt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm seeing issues with stale content from mirrors that are listed as
> > being up to date at https://mirror-status.centos.org/
> >
>
> Which basically checks the main root of the content dir and then
> displays that page.
> Not shown on that page is the result of the crawler process *then* only
> verifying *all* repositories metadata and comparing with local cache
>
> Normally , assuming that you don't have other internal caching
> somewhere, it should get the list of validated (and still to be
> considered current) mirrors.
>
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