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cmd -- yum update
CRITICAL:yum.cli:Config error: Parsing file failed: File contains parsing errors: file:///etc/yum.conf
[line 13]: This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the metadata
I notice that posted a duplicate of this post to an almost ten year old thread.
Did you read the thread and try the suggestions included in it? When you did so, what was the outcome?
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