On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Adam Hough <a...@gradientzero.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Fabio Jara <roninteko...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Patel >> >> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:58 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:37 -0400, Fabio Jara wrote: >> > > Hello Patel, >> > > >> > > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 08:12 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > > > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 08:03 -0400, Fabio Jara wrote: >> > > > > > I hope Tim (ignored_mailbox) will not see your advice. He >> recently >> > > > > was >> > > > > > very angry about yum clean all. Now it's forbidden to give such >> > > > > advice >> > > > > > ;-) >> > > > > Why is that? that worked for me two times in a row now, why is it >> > > > > forbidden? O_o For future reference. >> > > > >> > > > The only reason to use "yum clean all" instead of "yum clean >> metadata" >> > > > is if you're running out of space because of cached packages. Then >> you >> > > > get to waste bandwidth (not to mention server resources) downloading >> > > > them again. >> > > > >> > > > "yum clean metadata" has solved every problem I've ever had that >> "yum >> > > > clean all" would have solved. I would be interested to hear >> *reasoned* >> > > > argument about why this might not always be the case (apart from the >> > > > disk space issue already mentioned). >> > > >> > > A while ago i try to update my notebook with yum, and for some reason >> > > there was a conflict between the kmod-nvidia driver and another >> package. >> > > So i did all the normal methods that the error suggest me, also yum >> > > clean metadata. But when i try to update the same error got me again, >> so >> > > i got wild and type yum clean all. Try again and it work! So, that's >> why >> > > i suggested to do the same. :) >> > > >> > > >> > > I think that with the package-cleanup --problems and the --dupes >> > > something was still there, so the clean all remove it. >> > >> > That would indicate a bug in "yum clean metadata". If this happens again >> > you should report it. >> > >> > In any case the sequence "yum clean metadata" and only if that doesn't >> > work then "yum clean all" is perfectly reasonable. >> > >> > > And a short time ago i was having almost the same issue, i asked for >> > > help in the mailing list, and the problem this time was that the >> package >> > > have been updated in the mirror but not it's dependencies. So after a >> > > couple of days the error wasn't there anymore. >> > >> > I don't see the relevance of this last comment. If the package >> > dependencies haven't been updated in a mirror, neither "clean all" nor >> > "clean metadata" is going to fix the problem. >> >> This last comment was just for some people to notice that sometimes the >> error seems to be the same if the dependencies aren't ready yet, but >> these errors are not the same. >> >> > >> > poc >> > >> >> My best regards. >> >> <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list><http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines> >> > > > > So I had a similar issue for the pst week on my desktop machine. At some > point updates did not get applied right. Either I accidentally rebooted the > system while updating or something else messed up. I could not update > several of the packages that claimed they were missing files or > prerequisites. If you run " rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest" and you see > "Unsatisfied dependencies" error messages, then you might have the same > issue I had. > > Now if that is the case you will need to re-download and reinstall the > software and you might have to force the re-install of those packages. Now > you should just have to re-download the dependancies of the packages you > need to get everything updated to the current level. > > > > > -- > Hello After doing 'yum clean all' and yum clean metedata'.there is error in update.. I am not able to update my system........The error is as follows: [r...@dcis ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00 adobe-linux-i386/primary | 12 kB 00:00 adobe-linux-i386 17/17 Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again Please suggest me.........what shall I do? fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- Sandeep Kumar Patel University of Hyderabad
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