Jay Cliburn wrote: > On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 21:57 -0500, Anthony Messina wrote: >> Jay Cliburn wrote: >>> I've tried rpm --rebuilddb and yum clean all, but haven't been able to >>> coax yum into picking up the latest (2111) kernel. I'm running 2096. >>> I've seen other folks on the list remark on yum's recent inability to >>> detect updates, too. Does anyone know why yet? >>> >> i had to do a "yum clean headers metadata" alternated with "yum update" >> 3 times to pick up the kernel from a different mirror. > > Why is this happening? I've never had trouble with yum recognizing > updates. > yum caches what it finds in the repodata for a certain amount of time, which i believe is configurable by changing the "metadata_expire=1800" line in /etc/yum.conf to something shorter. perhaps you didn't notice it before today , because you may not have been "yum updating" all day on a regular basis like you might have been today to get the new kernel. today, being a special day, we were all checking often -- before our metadata expired. so i cleaned it out, then forced yum to do a recheck from whatever mirror it finds. -- Anthony Website: http://messinet.com Gallery: http://gallery.messinet.com/main.php?g2_itemId=34 GnuPG Key / Fingerprint: 0xB0014A4E / 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E Registered Linux User #389089 - Get counted!: http://counter.li.org
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