Gustavo De Nardin (spuk) wrote:
> But there's another problem here.. synthesis shouldn't miss an update's
> files (i.e. have a partial update).. it is likely this happened due to the
> kernel update having many files and big size. I'll see how we can improve or
> fix that.
>
>  
It's probably a consequence of the order in which rsync processes the
cooker directories. I notice that the synthesis and hdlists are pretty
much always the last thing in a "group" (main, contrib) to download. If
that's also the case for mirrors updating from the MDV primary, it's
easy to see how they could pick up new packages without getting the
updated control files. In fact, this happens quite often.

When a urpmi --auto-select fails because of a missing dependency, my
experience is that it is almost always caused by the presence of an old
synthesis or hdlist which doesn't reflect the missing package. For the
package to actually be missing, it would have to have been uploaded
significantly later than the package which needs it.