Really strange up2date behavior
Qian Qiao
qian.qiao at gmail.com
Tue Dec 14 17:17:50 UTC 2004
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:14:31 -0500 (EST), Matthew Saltzman
<mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> I have several identically configured (more or less) FC3 machines. On
> most of them, "up2date <pkgname>" works as expected for original and
> updated packages. But on one machine, if <pkgname> is the name of
> a package in the original distribution that hasn't been updated, "up2date
> <pkgname>" reports that the package cannot be found.
>
> This doesn't appear to have to do with mirrors, it has to do with the
> particular machine. Multiple attempts on the different machines do rotate
> through the mirrors but the results are consistent on each machine I try.
>
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources is identical on all machines.
>
> Any idea where I should look for other differences that might cause this
> inconsist behavior?
>
> TIA.
>
> On the odd machine (note the status "not found"):
>
> # up2date emacs
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-3
> using mirror:
> http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3
> using mirror:
> http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-3...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released-fc3...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
>
> Name Version Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> The following packages you requested were not found:
> emacs
>
> On the other machines (note the status "already updated":
>
> # up2date emacs
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-3
> using mirror:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3
> using mirror:
> http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-3...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released-fc3...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
>
> Name Version Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> The following packages you requested are already updated:
> emacs
>
> --
> Matthew Saltzman
>
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
>
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Trying use yum instead. I think it is encouraged to use yum instead of
up2date for FC releases. Instructions on yum are in man pages.
Good luck
-- Joe
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