On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:30 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > On May 20, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> > wrote: > > > Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a > >> cron job. update yum and then update. > > > > a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was > > broken > > then. b) It is broken again :/ c) "yum update yum" and then "yum > > update" > > the rest broke things for some people when going from 5.2 to 5.3. > > Ralph, > > I wonder if yum-updatesd might cache repo data separate from yum > cache, in which case some older incompatible cached data from the > previous version may still be around causing yum-updatesd to bork. > > If so I think that cache will need to be manually deleted. > > I'll check my desktop system when I get to work to see if my theory is > correct. > > -Ross --- The recent problem with having to yum clean all I have gone to the extent of testing on a client machine. What i have done is run a cron job for yum clean metadata whith a if then yum update. Evidently this is not happing to everyone. JohnStanley