[Yum] Yum 2.4.2 ignoring updates

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 15:40 +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> We have yum configured for a local update tree, including our own 
> repository which we rebuild with "createrepo dirname". It seems that yum 
> is ignoring any updates which are put into this repository.
> 
> This is with yum 2.4.2 on Scientific Linux, which is a RHEL clone.
> 

what is metadata_expire set to on the affected systems?

-sv