MHR wrote: > Is anyone else seeing this situation? > > I subscribe to the announce digest, and for the last four or five > announcements that contained updates to CentOS 5, I've been unable to > get a successful run of yum update for as much as 24 hours after the > announcement. The last time around, I tried at about 5 hours after > the posting, and yum couldn't see anything. I ran yum clean all, and > yum update still couldn't see anything. In general, if I wait a day, > the updates load just fine, but that just feels wrong. > > I do have the fastestmirror plugin installed (and priorities). > > Thanks. > > mhr > Yes, I HAVE but no, I'm not. I really don't know what's different, either. The announcement is dated Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00:02 -0400 and at 13:25 -0500 (2.4 hours later) I see a new kernel, new kernel-devel, updated kernel-doc, updated kernel-headers and 6 updated user packages ready to go. I regard the delay as "normal", current behavior to be an anomaly .