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[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 30 May 2008 20:10:24 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:

> > "yum clean metadata", then try again. Alternatively, disable
> > mirrorlist and pick a nearby mirror, which is up-to-date often
> > and sooner than arbitrary mirrors on mirrorlist.
> 
> yum clean metadata and _then_ yum clean all did the trick. I have no
> idea why yum clean all did not work before.

Coincidence. :)

"clean all" includes "clean metadata" (see "man yum"), but is not
needed. It is enough to purge metadata and retry till mirrorlist
points you to an up-to-date mirror.

You just deleted all downloaded/cached packages instead of just the
metadata files.