SMART and IPv6

[Jani Partanen]

Now I must say omg lol!

Reason was that I had in my dns zone setup with wildcard, *.sotapeli.fi
I know it's not rfc stuff, but never had issues with it..
I think what happen is that when system detect that we do have IPv6 
connection, it first try to resolve AAAA record and when that fails, it 
goes and ask local, so mirror.centos.org becomes 
mirror.centos.org.sotapeli.fi, what resolves IPv6 addres into my box!
But if also local fails, then it switch to A record resolving.


Thats the reason why SOME repos did work and others not. Some repos does 
have IPv6 support already.
Now if I find a switch what tells that all resolves will be done to A 
records first, then I can continue to use wildcard in my dns zone..

But when you dig and dig, sooner or later you find solution :p

So no bug report because of user have made syntax terror ;)


Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Jani Partanen wrote:
> 
>> Well I installed python-curl and error is now this:
>> Fetching information for 'CentOS 5.3 - x86_64 - addons'...
>> -> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.3/addons/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
>> repomd.xml 
>> ##################################################################### [
>> 38%]
>> error: Primary information not found in repository metadata for 
>> 'CentOS 5.3 - x86_64 - addons'
> 
> If you look at the downloaded file (in /var/lib/smart/channels),
> does it look OK - or is it missing data or empty or something ?
> 
> If you have old files in there, you might want to remove those.
> In case they were downloaded badly, but with correct timestamp ?
> 
> There is also a test case for the smart "fetcher", run it with:
> make test TEST=tests/fetcher.py
> 
> You could also try whether cURL works all by itself, by running:
> curl http:///centos/5.3/addons/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
> 
> --anders
> 
> PS. Do open a bug report, as well...
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart
> 
>