xnonsuchx wrote:BTW, it appears that Fixstars recently changed its YDL 6.2 mirrorlist to only point to the mirror at OSU, which appears to have March 2010 and June 2010 file in the Updates repo that include files that don't work with YDL 6.2 on PS3. Namely, the util-linux-2.13-0.52.1.ppc.rpm update includes an updated /sbin/hwclock binary, causing YDL 6.2 on PS3 to not be able to sync its clock to the system clock and will always think it's double however many hours you are behind GMT behind the current time (e.g. if it's noon Pacific US DS time (7p GMT), it will think it's 5a the same day instead), and will show sync errors during boot/shutdown.
If you backup the /sbin/hwclock file after initial install and restore it after doing a yum update, it should work fine, but I wonder how many other newer updates may not be compatible.
UPDATE: After looking further, it looks like Fixstar's main repo now just resolves to the OSU site. After checking several other working repos, only the OSU site has the March-June '10 newer files in the updates repo, so I'm not sure if something weird (and untested) is going on or if the other mirrors just haven't added those updates yet. It's still disconcerting to me, so for the time-being, I've changed my YDL repo files and created my own mlist mirror list files (w/o the OSU one included).
I finally got around to updating my system and see the issue you've described -- will look into it.
EDIT: Owen says he's pulled the offending RPM now.