Re: Troubleshooting yum

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On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 22:41 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:40 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > What worried me was the 'older than'.  How could that be?
> 
> I can see that happening in two ways:
> 
> When you last yum updated, *your* files were dated then.  If the mirror
> hasn't changed in the meantime, its files will be older than yours.
> Though, I would have thought that your files might be dated the same as
> whatever you fetched, so yum would see something the same-as, rather
> than something older on the server.
> 
> A more probably alternative:  You've used different mirrors while yum
> updating, from one attempt to another.  The one that you're currently
> trying is older than one you've used before.

Good explanation. I've been wondering about that myself since I get it
from time to time. For reasons of paranoia I usually do a 'yum clean
metadata' to make sure it's all in sync, but that's probably overkill.

poc

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