[Yum] Strange results using mirrorlist when mirrors out of sync

[Fred]

On Friday 03 December 2004 20:18, Fred wrote:
> Maybe a message might help, assuming there's a way to
> catch the problem:
>
>  "unable to retrieve package xyz, repo=abc, metadata from <timestamp>"

or perhaps better:

 "replacing metadata <timestamp> with older version <timestamp>"
 "- this might be due to an unreachable *upstream* mirror"

Fred.