2012/12/19 Theo Band theo.band@greenpeak.com:
On 12/19/2012 08:34 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:26:58 +0100 Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
Theo: I suggest disabling all repos except os+updates and trying again.
He could go to that mirror with a web browser and see if the package actually exists there.
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?
Just as a side note: when installing downloaded files (e.g. make-3.81-20.el6.x86_64.rpm) better using yum then rpm, as in # yum install make-3.81-20.el6.x86_64.rpm otherwise after that install you will always get warnings about RPMDB altered outside of yum.
Regarding your specific problem, as already suggested I'd start with # yum clean all