On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Ken Schumacher wrote:

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> On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
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>> Ken,
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>> Have you done a
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>>   yum clean all
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> Yes, I have done 'yum clean all'.  That's part of the e-mail that I sent at 4:12 this afternoon, probably while you were typing this message to me.

Yes and I was writing my email when you were writing yours.  Good they did 
not smash each other in transfer :-)

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>> for each of your repositories?
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> I have not used any enablerepo or disablerepo options on the 'yum clean all' command.  I guess when I typed clean all, I figured that would just clear everything from the cache and such, regardless of repository.

"yum clean all" only cleans the enabled repos not the disabled repos.

yum --enablerepo=\* clean all

will really clean them all.

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>> What version of yum and rpm do you have?
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> [root@jpsi1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep yum
> yum-2.4.3-10.SL.noarch

That is the latest yum for both 4.4 and 4.8.

> yum-utils-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch
> yum-conf-42-3.LTS.noarch
> [root@jpsi1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep rpm
> rpm-libs-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.x86_64
> rpmdb-Fermi-44-0.20061206.x86_64
> rpm-build-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.x86_64
> redhat-rpm-config-8.0.32.1-4.noarch
> rpm-python-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.x86_64
> rpm-devel-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.x86_64
> SL_rpm_show_arch-1.0-1.noarch
> rpm-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.x86_64

That is the latest rpm for 4.8 .

What is the output of

   yum list extras

Hope it is not memory intensive too.

--connie sieh
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>> -connie sieh
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