[NBLUG/talk] Troubleshooting yum

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Wed Feb 27 20:16:39 PST 2013


Good call Linc,

I regularly do a 'yum clean all' on my CentOS boxen just to keep things 
fresh.

On 2/22/2013 10:11 AM, Lincoln Peters wrote:
>
> I finally figured it out.  It had nothing to do with the yum version; 
> it just so happened that there was cached metadata for the repository 
> on the RHEL 6.2 machine, and when yum failed to connect to the 
> repository host, it used the cached metadata instead.
>
> Thus, if I want to know if any yum repositories are inaccessible, I 
> need to do a "yum clean" first.
>
>
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