yum update yum;yum update yum-utils; WORKS

[landon kelsey]

I get all ALL kinds of advice on these forums!

I've gotten this:

> yum clean all
> yum clean metadata
> yum clean dbcache

from several different sources.

I am spread way too thin already to become an expert on yum, XORG,
 X11, SELinux,  the kernel, device drivers, etc.
and many other technologies I have NO knowledge of!

I will use yum as an update mechanism and trust its creators

 as I do with XP Prof.


--- On Thu, 9/11/08, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: yum update yum;yum update yum-utils;   WORKS
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 4:11 AM

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:32:16 -0700 (PDT), landon kelsey wrote:

> my yum update now show all done
> 
> I was told one must do these occasionally :
> 
> yum clean all
> yum clean metadata
> yum clean dbcache

Who has said that? It's nonsense, because "all" implies
"metadata dbcache packages headers". No need to run three
different commands if you want to purge everything. These
options are explained in the manual, btw.

> yum update
> 
> or get nothing when there IS something to get!

"yum clean metadata" is enough to make Yum re-download the repository
metadata (instead of reusing cached data for 30 minutes). When refetching
metadata it is possible that you are assigned to a different mirror
that is more up-to-date than your previous one. There is NO guarantee
for that.

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