[users] perl-MIME-tools woes

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --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.

No worries, me too.

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