up2date how to

[Kit Knox]

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 08:56, redhat wrote:
> I have just changed several machines over from RH to Fedora.  The
> up2date function appears to be identical.  I ran it and it showed me
> quite a few packages that needed to be updated but when I selected the
> updates it collected the RPMs but then hung on the installation.  I was
> curious if we have to go out and get the newer up2date RPMs like on RH? 

If you are pointing at a yum source, up2date doesn't by default have
verbose output like yum itself when fetching the header files.  If you
strace the process I bet its not hung, but fetching lots of header
files.

-Kit