Yum requires "clean all" to work

[suvayu ali]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 02:47, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mellertson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dumb question - is you system time/date correct? Before downloading
> the package list, yum checks the time stamp, and if it is older then
> the data it already has, it does not update its list. When you do a
> clean all, it erases the data, and has to download it again. It then
> checks the package information against the installed packages to see
> if there is a newer version.

Another possibility might be the OP's metadata_expire is set to a long value.

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Suvayu

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