Latets yum thoroughly hosed?!

[Horst von Brand]

Horst von Brand <vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> i686, Fedora rawhide up to date (except for neon, rpm*, subversion; blocked
> by OOo).
> 
> Just updated, now I have yum-2.5.1-3. Running yum just to make sure
> everything is now up-to-date gets to more than a minute (!) of CPU time
> while checking the local repo data, and OOMs the machine, filling up swap
> and making it nearly unresponsive.  Only way out is kill -KILL, AFAICS.

Tried again after "yum clean metadata", same result
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