yum 'updates' file too big?

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:39 PM, charles zeitler <cfzeitler at gmail.com> wrote:
> --
>
> Do what thou wilt
> shall  be the whole  of the Law.
>
<snipped yum output>
>
> and, the 'user' who exited wasn't me. (i'm the only human user) any
> clues on this one?

Try cleaning the metadata cache for the updates repo:
yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=updates clean all

Then try again.

-T.C.