On 12 July 2010 13:29, Benjamin Franz <jfranz at freerun.com> wrote: > On 07/12/2010 04:58 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: >> >> So, it seems like I managed to correctly update the repodata and all, >> but originally, yum concluded that it didn't need to download a new >> version, but could use the one cached earlier. instead. >> >> Does anyone have any idea why this happened? How exactly does yum decide >> when to download new headers and when to reuse cached data? >> > > You probably want the /etc/yum.conf file. There should be a line in it > right now that reads 'metadata_expire=1h'. > > -- > Benjamin Franz > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Rather than deleting that directory as a whole you would probably be better served by doing a yum clean metadata instead...