Re: [K12OSN] Crazy Spam in my yum update

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

Carl Keil wrote:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Carl Keil wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >     Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this when I run 'yum
> >     update'? Both my k12ltsp boxes are doing it. And what can/should I
> >     do about it? Yum is wonderful, mysterious and terrifying to me.
> >     What follows is approximately one quarter (hopefully
> >     representative) of the output I get when I run 'yum update' from
> >     the command line.
> >
> > <snip>
> >   
> > Looks like /var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml got corrupted somehow. 
> > Have you tried running 'yum clean all' and trying again?
> >
> > Nils Breunese.
> >
> >
> >  
> Yes, I should have mentioned that I did a 'yum clean all' before the 
> 'yum update'.  I still got the same thing afterwards.  The file 
> /var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml is full of weird spammy nonsense.  
> Is it safe to just delete that file?
>
> ck

Yes, you can remove everything under /var/cache/yum/macromedia  (that is 
what "yum clean all" should have done)

If you are running through a proxy, perhaps your proxy has a corrupted 
copy. You can tell up-stream proxies not to cache the meta-data by 
adding this line to the [main] section of /etc/yum.conf

	http_caching packages

-Eric