Re: yum: recurring error 256 on nfs mounted repo

Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
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>>> I also tried doing 'yum list PACKAGE' and it finds our packages as 
>>> available.
>>>
>>> I'm stumped on this. I looks like it should just download and 
>>> install them but it refuses with this 256 error (no more mirrors to 
>>> try).
>>>
>> Almost forgot. This is on F10 and yum is v3.2.21.
>>
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> Can you paste in the specific error you're getting and the complete 
> output?
>
> -sv
Ok, I found the problem.
I needed to rerun createrepo --update, then 'yum clean expire-cache', 
and then yum would download the packages.

Regards,
Gerry