[CentOS] yum install make does not work

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Theo Band <theo.band at greenpeak.com> wrote:
>
> I have two installations. One that works, and one that does not, so I
> can compare. I want to point to a known good mirror, but haven't figured
> out how to do that. I can probably just download the make rpm and
> install it with rpm. But that feels like cheating :-). And only one
> package seems to not exist. How does yum "remember" that? Is it perhaps
> a rpm database thing?

I usually try a 'yum clean all' first as a brute-force approach to
anything that isn't working.   It will clear all the cached stuff,
including the preferred mirror (although it may pick the same one
again with the fastestmirror test).

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   Les Mikesell
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