F13 kernel update mystery

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 08:20 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> On 08/25/2010 07:38 AM, Hiisi wrote:
> > 2010/8/25 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com>:
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> >> On 08/25/2010 06:16 AM, Frank Elsner wrote:
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> >>> Hello,
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> >>> I've 2 machines running Fedora 13, both with kernel 2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686.
> >>>
> >>> When I did a "yum check-update" yesterday evening only one machine offered an
> >>> update to the new new kernel 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What's behind? Different repos used by yum?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --Frank Elsner
> >>
> >> Most likely one has a yum cache that isn't yet expired (i.e. you last
> >> checked the repos more recently on one than the other).
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> >> I'd recommend doing 'yum clean all' and then try again.
> >>
> >> - --
> >> Stephen Gallagher
> >> RHCE 804006346421761
> >>
> > 
> > I wouldn't dare to suggest using 'yum clean all' on this list. It's
> > nearly the same big mistake as posting in html.
> > Seriously, do one need to clean all in this situation or clean
> > metadata should be enough?
> 
> 
> Sorry, my yum-fu isn't that strong. I just recommended the quickest
> option to guarantee that it would be cleaned :)

If it comes to that, "yum clean metadata" is quicker since it doesn't
touch the packages. AFAIK the only reason to use "clean all" is to
recover disk space.

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