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