[Bug 592074] New: Need to 'yum clean all' for gnome repo

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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592074

           Summary: Need to 'yum clean all' for gnome repo
    Classification: Infrastructure
           Product: sysadmin
           Version: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: Packages
        AssignedTo: sysadmin-maint gnome bugs
        ReportedBy: otaylor redhat com
         QAContact: sysadmin-maint gnome bugs
      GNOME target: ---
     GNOME version: ---


--- Comment #0 from Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> 2009-08-17 13:04:45 UTC ---
I've observed in the past that when I update the GNOME repository (by putting
packages into /home/admin/pkgs and then running 'cobbler reposync' on
container), that I'm not able to install the new packages without running 'yum
clean all' on the affected machine. ['all' is more aggressive then is needed,
but saves thinking]

Couple things that could be going on:

 - Maybe the yum is simply not even checking for updated meta-data if it's
checked at some point in the fairly recent past. There might be some
per-repository parameter that could be configured to be short for the gnome
repository (since it's small and local.)

 - Maybe there is a cobbler bug that is not updating timestamps properly (we
updated our cobbler version on container recently, I haven't tested carefully
for this problem after that upgrade. It's conceivable that this bug is not
still happening.)

Needs testing to see if it's still happening and better characterize the
problem, and then if necessary fixing.

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