yum mirrors not in sync

[Kam Leo]

On 5/17/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> At 11:54 AM -0500 5/17/06, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:09, Javier Perez wrote:
> >
> >>         It is from time to time, Tony.  A few hours wait seems to fix
> >>         it, usually.
> >
> >> Sorry Gene, but it has been going on for more than two weeks already!
> >>
> >> I thought a few hours would fix it but it hasn't. I think it is past
> >> time the
> >> people doing the "updates" mirrors got together and start comparing
> >> notes. It does not seem to go away automgically like other
> >> synchronization issues
> >
> >Sometimes you can get an odd condition cached locally and
> >it won't clear up after the repositories update.  Have
> >you tried a 'yum clean all'?
>
> I have, and yum clean metadata and yum clean headers.
>
> I take it, from your comment, that yum has been performing properly for
> you.  Do your repo files use the mirrorlists or the base url?
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You can try disabling "fastestmirror" plugin as one poster did last
month to fix this problem or install smart, smart-gui, and
smart-update packages from Extras.