Description of problem: If for some reason a computer's date is set to future and then yum update is run. And LATER reset the computer date to proper current date YUM no longer updates the system with new updated packages. (Happened when my RTC battery went down and I wrongly set the clock to 2009 once and ran yum update later even after fixing the date in computer, for few days I found yum not updating my system and on probing found this issue. I FIXED this by clearing ALL the cache maintained by yum) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Was two to three weeks back (didn't get time to report before) How reproducible: I haven't tried repeating later but this is the steps that had lead to the problem for me. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set the clock in computer (bios level during initial boot) to 2009 2. login into FC5, run yum update (was in this wrong date for one or two days) 3. Reset the computer and reset the clock to proper current date in bios 4. login into FC5 and run yum update. NOTE 1. I noticied that atleast for 3 to 4 days after this nothing was updating in my system, but on checking fedora website it had shown new updates, then on checking I released the 2009 date goof up thro time info in /var/cache related to yum and HAD to clear all cache thro/of yum and only then yum update started working. Actual results: system not getting updated with new updated packages Expected results: system should get updated with new updated packages, independent of whether its clock is set to future or the yum believes it has gone to future and come back . Additional info: As I have already mentioned I haven't tried repeating the same setup later. But it did occur to me and surprised me that suddenly FC5 didn't have any new updated packages for few days ;-)
On verifing further now, even if just the cachecookie files in /var/cache related to yum have a time in future. Yum doesn't seem to check for updates for that particular repository. I will verify if the same issue persists tomorrow also and then inform back. - hanishkvc
Any update on this?
Closing due to inactivity