Rackspace (syd.mirror.rackspace.com) never synced Fedora 44: it serves
releases/43 but 404s on releases/44/.../repomd.xml, breaking dnf makecache
for F44 through the caching proxy. Repoint to gsl-syd.mm.fcix.net, a
Sydney-local FCIX tier-1 mirror that is fully synced for F44 (releases +
updates + Packages, verified 200, ~25ms), using the standard
/fedora/linux layout root.
dl.fedoraproject.org is the throttled master, causing F44 cold-fetch
timeouts. uni-stuttgart is a fast tier-1 mirror carrying the full
releases+updates tree.
The fcix micromirror (gsl-syd.mm.fcix.net) does not carry F44, so dnf
gets HTTP 404 for releases/44/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml.
dl.fedoraproject.org is the canonical always-current Fedora source.
repodata (repomd.xml and its referenced index files) is a mutable index that
upstream RPM repos rotate frequently. Marking it immutable (immutable_ttl: 0)
makes artifactapi cache repomd.xml forever: classifier.go checks
immutable_patterns before the RPM provider's own rule (which already classifies
repodata/ as mutable), and SetTTL with ttl=0 writes a Redis key with no expiry.
The result is a stale repomd.xml that keeps pointing at checksum-named metadata
files upstream has already deleted -> 404 on dnf metadata refresh. This broke
rpmbuilder's almalinux8 builds via the epel remote and would eventually hit any
rolling RPM remote.
Remove the repodata immutable patterns from every remote_rpm config so repodata
falls through to the provider's Mutable classification and is re-fetched every
mutable_ttl. RPMs, noarch, GPG keys and .img files stay immutable.
- Drop ".*/repodata/.*\.{xml,sqlite,yaml}.*$" from all config/remote_rpm/*.yaml
(14 files, 20 lines).
After apply, the already-cached stale repodata entries must be evicted (they
have no expiry); that is done per-remote as a follow-up.
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