On May 19, 2006, at 11:01, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> OK ... yum caches metadata ... so for a period of time there is a file
> in cache that MIGHT be different (if there are changes on the mirror).
>
> You should start with this if you have that problem:
>
> yum clean metadata
I'll try this next time.
> However ... this sounds like a different problem because ...
> yumgroups.xml never really changes, except when we release a new ISO.
>
> Are you rebuilding your metadata with createrepo ... if you are,
> are you
> using the -g option?
Nope, I don't use creatrepo; I just rsync the entire repo from one of
the mirrors. Running "yum grouplist" as root updated the cached
version of yumgroups.xml, and now everthing is in sync again.
Alfred
