[CentOS] yum grouplist error

Alfred von Campe alfred at 110.net
Fri May 19 19:06:08 UTC 2006


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




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