[CentOS] http error when updating 7.5 ==> 7.6

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 07:32:33AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 3/25/19 6:37 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On 3/23/19 9:19 AM, Bez Thomas wrote:
> >>> On Mar 22, 2019, at 9:52 PM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Was just doing a (very) belated update on a 7.5 system and ran into
> >>> this set of errors:
> >>>
> >>
> >>> Some delta RPMs failed to download or rebuild. Retrying..
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> so, anybody know why we're getting the 416 error from yum but not from
> >>> firefox?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Fred,
> >>
> >> Ran into this yesterday. It seems to be a delta rpm problem.
> >> Firefox is working because it’s downloading the whole rpm, avoiding the issue.
> >>
> >> setting 
> >> deltarpm=0
> >> in /etc/yum.conf is an equivalent workaround, and fixed the issue for me. 
> >>
> >> I’d appreciate someone who knows more about how delta rpms work weighing in on what the actual issue is.
> >>
> > 
> > Not sure what happened with the drpms, but I will regenerate all the
> > polkit drpms with the upcoming ghostscript release later this morning.
> > 
> > I added drpm tests to our pre-release CI tests as well.
> > 
> 
> This is not the first time we have had issues with drpms in the update tree.
> 
> Would anyone be opposed to taking away deltarpms from the repositories?
> 
> They take up lots of space and they have cause multiple issues in the past.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 

Johnny, thanks for looking into this.

I, for one, have no  issue with there being no drpms. their purpose was,
as I recall, to save bandwidth. this may still help for busy mirrors,
but for most of us bandwidth is no  problem. Someone on dialup may
disagree, but how many of those are there these days?

Fred

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