On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 14:34 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: > I have myself found that "yum clean all" apparently fixes many > problems even when I'm not sure why it should. When I have a problem > updating, I usually start with cleaning the cache and metadata just to > establish a baseline. Ninety percent of the time, this first step > makes my problem go away. But apparently that approach means I'm > stupid. Have you tried "yum clean metadata" in any of these cases, rather than "yum clean all"? If not, how do you know that the former would not have worked? My personal experience is that cleaning metadata has *always* fixed problems without the need for cleaning the cache. That may not be everyone's experience, but it is mine. Even if it doesn't always work, it is always faster, and doesn't stop you cleaning the cache later if you need to. IOW the sensible procedure is: yum clean metadata iff that doesn't solve the problem: yum clean all poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
