[users] perl-MIME-tools woes

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Saturday, December 01, 2007 8:52 PM +0100 Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> 
wrote:

> Right, I meant, what mirror was offering this package from the metadata.
> Yum uses _one_ mirror to get the metadata, which one was it ?
>
> None of the mirrors are offering this package anymore, but somehow your
> metadata thinks so. So, please clean your yum cache and see if that works.
>
> The metadata definitely does not reference a perl-MIME-tools higher than
> 5.420 and if your yum thinks so, it is yum's problem (or a broken mirror).
>
> Sadly no single soul to date was able to tell me which mirror is broken.
> Everybody complains and a yum clean seems to fix things, but as long as
> nobody does the investigative work, things will be the same.

Sorry, I didn't realize there was a way to discover this. Will the yum 
output tell me this? Which file in the cache would be the metadata being 
used? (So I know what to pull from each mirror to check.)

I've used RPM for a long time and build a few packages, but I'm a novice at 
understanding the yum machinery.