yum gone crazy

[Gene Heskett]

Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 05:38 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> After all my network probs, I thought I'd let yumex check things again. 
>>   It got hung, so I killed it.  Then I had it clean the cache.  Its 
>> stuck now downloading primary.xml.gz for updates-testing in a repeating 
>> forever loop, wtf?
> 
> I've yet to see a case where you needed to clear the cache (all the
> downloaded RPMs and headers), doing so is just going to be a drain on
> bandwidth (yours and the servers), as all the headers will need to be
> downloaded again to resolve dependencies.
> 
> Cleaning the metadata is all that I've seen that needs doing (it cleans
> away the file that is used to check for updates, and the one that gets
> complained about when yum doesn't work).  If you aborted in the middle
> of getting a RPM header or file, the broken download will be resumed or
> restarted next time, automatically.
> 
> I've seen plenty of times where you'll do an update that worked, then
> moments later try to do another (on the same PC or another), and you've
> unfortunately picked the moment that the repo has been changed.  You're
> stuck with repeatedly doing a "yum clean metadata", "yum update", for a
> while until the repos get their act together.  They don't seem too quick
> at finishing updating themselves.
> 
That must have been the case as it eventually did proceed, about 10 
minutes of grabbing that file every 2 seconds though.

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Cheers, Gene