[CentOS] CentOS 6 update issues

[James Pearson]

> 
> On 19 Oct 2015, at 04:22, "John Cenile" <jcenile1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When performing a yum update, it fails because it's trying to download from:
> 
> mirror.centos.org/centos/*6.6*/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
> 
> Which fails due to the fact that the entire 6.6 directory is empty on all
> of the mirrors I have checked

I had something similar happen recently when upgrading a box from 6.6 to 6.7

I 'fixed' it by running 'yum clean all' first

I did think it odd at the time - but didn't get round to trying to find out why ...

James Pearson