Bug 521504

Summary:	The message "Checking for new repos for mirrors" is incomprehensibly ambiguous.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter Trenholme <PTrenholme>
Component:	yum-utils	Assignee:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	ffesti, james.antill, maxamillion, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
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Description Peter Trenholme 2009-09-06 15:16:49 UTC

Description of problem:
The message "Checking for new repos for mirrors" can be interpreted in so many different ways that it is incomprehensible.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ yum --version
3.2.24
  Installed: rpm-4.7.1-4.fc12.x86_64 at 2009-09-03 19:26
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2009-08-14 17:03
  Committed: Jesse Keating <jkeating> at 2009-08-14 12:00

  Installed: yum-3.2.24-2.fc12.noarch at 2009-09-05 15:35
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2009-09-03 20:59
  Committed: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> at 2009-09-03 12:00

  Installed: yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-14.fc12.x86_64 at 2009-09-03 19:24
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2009-08-18 16:30
  Committed: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> at 2009-08-18 12:00


How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start yum
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Message "Checking for new repos for mirrors" displayed

Expected results:
Something that makes some sense should be displayed

Additional info:
"Checking for new repos for mirrors" could mean:

Checking any new repositories for new mirrors
-or-

Checking for new repositories or mirrors
-or- (since a new repository would have been specified in repos.d)

Checking for new mirrors
-or-

something else I can't guess.

Anyhow, next time the code is changed, replacing the message with something that makes a little sense would be useful.

Comment 1 seth vidal 2009-09-06 15:47:12 UTC

This string, afaict, does not appear anywhere in yum.

Can you cut and paste it and its context?

Thanks

Comment 2 Peter Trenholme 2009-09-06 17:10:11 UTC

The message has been around for a while. (I reported it to rawhide so it could be improved in F12. It's, as I said, a very low impact issue.)

I'm on F11 right now, but here's a typical run: (I isolated the first occurrence with a dashes, not normally in the output.)

$ sudo yum update
[sudo] password for Peter:        
Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, auto-update-debuginfo, dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror, keys, merge-conf,
              : presto, upgrade-helper, verify                                                           
Found 24 installed debuginfo package(s)                                                                  
Enabling fedora-debuginfo: Fedora 11 - x86_64 - Debug                                                    
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile                                                               
updates/metalink                                                                    |  16 kB     00:00     
 * fedora: mirror.web-ster.com                                                                             
 * fedora-debuginfo: linux.mirrors.es.net                                                                  
 * rpmfusion-free: mirror.web-ster.com                                                                     
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.web-ster.com
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
 * updates: mirror.web-ster.com
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonfree - Debug
---------------------------------------
Checking for new repos for mirrors
---------------------------------------
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo: mirror.web-ster.com
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Enabling rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free - Updates Debug
Checking for new repos for mirrors
 * rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo: mirror.web-ster.com
Reading repository metadata in from local files
rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo                                                    | 2.7 kB     00:00
Enabling rpmfusion-free-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Free - Debug
Checking for new repos for mirrors
 * rpmfusion-free-debuginfo: mirror.web-ster.com
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Enabling updates-debuginfo: Fedora 11 - x86_64 - Updates - Debug
Checking for new repos for mirrors
updates-debuginfo/metalink                                                          |  12 kB     00:00
 * updates-debuginfo: linux.mirrors.es.net
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 - Nonfree - Updates Debug
Checking for new repos for mirrors
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo: mirror.web-ster.com
Reading repository metadata in from local files
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo                                                 | 2.7 kB     00:00
Checking for new repos for mirrors
adobe-linux-i386                                                                    |  951 B     00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates                                                              | 3.8 kB     00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                                           | 3.8 kB     00:00
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

Comment 3 seth vidal 2009-09-06 17:59:06 UTC

this is coming out of the fastest-mirror plugin and is kind a legit message there.

It means it is checking to see if there are any repos which are not cached which are using mirrors.