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Re: *RESOLVED* "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:"
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Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]>
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Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:29:36 +1100
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On 29/03/2016 8:23 AM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Steven Haigh wrote:
> 
>> RedHat seems to have something on this - but its locked behind the
>> subscription:
>>    https://access.redhat.com/solutions/29845
>>
>> If its only the overnight cron you get it from, it may be good enough to
>> modify /etc/sysconfig/yum-autoupdate and add "yum clean all" to PRERUN.
>>
>> I note that I only ever get these from 7.x systems. 6.x doesn't seem to
>> throw this at all.
> 
> I have seen it on my SL6 home machine occasionally.
> 
> As others say, yum clean seems to help.

I wouldn't say this is a fix. Its a fix in as far as 'we remove the
files it compares so it can't error'. It hides the problem rather than
addresses the root cause of it....

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Steven Haigh

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