yum problem - and solution

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Tue Oct 31 19:45:26 UTC 2006


Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 11:26 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>   
>> (2) Why did "yum clean all" not solve the problem?
>>     
>
> Guesses:
>
> On subsequent uses of YUM, you used a different mirror source, one that
> was in a fit-to-be-used condition.
>
> In the meantime, the repo changed from being not-ready to being read.
>
> ------------
>
> There seems to be something really bad about how YUM mirrors update.  It
> seems like every time I want to use one, it's not in a usable state.  I
> nearly always have to do a "yum clean metadata" before I can do a yum
> update or install, and sometimes I have to do it several times (i.e. it
> clears out the problematic repo data that's been downloaded, and tries
> yet another set of mirrors.
>
> Surely there's a need for some better system of co-ordination?  Or, at
> least, when you contact some repo mirror that its repo data reflects
> what is usable on *it*, not what's potentially going to be available,
> and it only updates after the latest RPMs and headers are ready.
>
> Just looking at the usual mess, it seems like mirrors don't have their
> descriptive data and RPM headers and files in sync.
>   

                I don't understand what's happening but I haven't been
                able to yum update since yesterday until I did "yum
                clean metadata" as you pointed out. I've been reading
                all the yum stuff that came up and this message was the
                answer.

                Thanks.

                Bob Goodwin




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