[CentOS-devel] 5.3´s anaconda src.rpm missing

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Thu Apr 9 14:11:13 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 16:50 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> That is, why does yum do something different after a 'yum clean all'?
> Shouldn't it be trying all the mirrors anyway if it fails to get a
> file for any reason? 

 Because "yum clean all" will delete your mirrorlist.txt file, so then
you could be (and I assume are) talking to a different set of mirrors on
any subsequent runs.
 "yum clean expire-cache" is the less expensive way of doing the same
thing.

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James Antill - james at fedoraproject.org
"I'd just like to see a realistic approach to updates via
 packages." -- Les Mikesell



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