On Wednesday 21 October 2009 21:16, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote:

> That is a bit strange.  I would have expected the links to be
> http://server/centos/*5*/blahblah instead of having 5.3. Is
> your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo still the original version or
> has someone customized it to look at 5.3 specifically?

/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo has this:

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
priority=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

But anyway /var/cache/yum/updates/mirrorlist.txt finally got updated and
the problem has been solved. I'm still wondering why I couldn't update
the file in the first place, though.