Troubleshooting yum

Stuart Sears stuart at sjsears.com
Fri May 23 10:31:28 UTC 2008


Anne Wilson wrote:
> I forgot to save the actual message, so I'm quoting from memory.  I keep 
> getting something like
> 
> 'Not using repom.d.  Older than the one I have'
> 
> I can't see anything odd about the repo files, so what could be wrong and 
> where do I look?

I don't think this is an error.

The yum system appears to be checking modification(or possibly creation) 
times on remote repomd.xml files for your configured repositories.
This way it will only download new copies if they have changed. Saves 
time and bandwidth.


Stuart




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