yum sometimes updates sometimes not

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Mar 9 03:26:41 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 23:00 -0400, Mail Lists wrote:
> I have a local repo on an internal web server - I have 6 machines on
> F10 using the same repo - 3 machines happily update - 3 say they are up
> to date - which they are not - firefox for example is not 3.0.7.
> 
>   The mirrorlist is a file - which contains a single entry - my web
> server.  And is identical on all machines - in fact its all nfs mounted.
> 
>   I try this "yum clean metadata" and even yum clean all - still yum
> update says there are no updates ...
> 
>   I tried --noplugins - same problem. Only plugin i have is changelog
> anyway beyonf the standard install.
> 
>   Suggestions on how to force yum to recognize the updates are there -
> they really are?
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they may use the same mirrorlist file but they will get different
results based upon whichever server the mirrorlist server dishes out and
each mirror will have its own schedule for sync'ing. If you have 6
machines on F10, you might want to consider running your own mirror.

Craig




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