[CentOS] No firefox 38.1.1 update

Mon Aug 10 13:07:39 UTC 2015
Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net>

On 08/10/2015 07:55 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 08/09/2015 10:42 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> On 08/09/2015 10:21 AM, Peter Q. wrote:
>>> On Aug 9, 2015 8:43 AM, "Robert Nichols" <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm still not getting the firefox-38.1.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm
>>>> that was announced yesterday (8 August) morning.  I looked at
>>>> several of the mirror sites I receive, and they all have the new
>>>> firefox in their Packages directory, but their repodata is all
>>>> a day older (7 August), so yum doesn't see the update.
>>>>
>>>> Example mirror: http://mirror.cs.uwp.edu/pub/centos/6.7/updates/x86_64/
>>>
>>> Yum clean metadata
>>> Yum update
>>
>> Did that several times.  The problem is with the out-of-date metadata
>> on the mirrors themselves.  Cleaning my local cache and re-downloading
>> the same bad metadata isn't going to help.
>>
>> Downloading the package itself and updating from the local file works,
>> as does storing the package in a local repo and updating from that.
>>
>
> The metadata was stale on several mirrors .. I redid it and reuploaded it.

So I noticed. Thanks much for fixing it for others.

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