yum update doesn't!
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 19:01:03 UTC 2004
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:53:34 -0500, mwood77 at frontiernet.net
<mwood77 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
> Quoting Dave <fedora-user at nospam.dnsalias.org>:
>
> > Newest problem ... since several have suggested updating my system
> > would solve
> > some issues, I tried it. "yum update" goes through, identifies all
> > the
> > packages that need updating (I assume--I didn't go through and
> > manually
> > verify), downloads all the packages (verified they're
> > in /var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages), and then happily exits.
> > But did
> > it update anything? Nope. "yum check-updates" still lists everything
> > that
> > needed updating.
> >
> > Am I supposed to manually go into the directory and run "rpm -Uvh *"?
> > I
> > thought yum was supposed to handle all that?
> >
>
> Interesting. I would tend to clear out the
> /var/cache/yum/updates-released area and try just updating yum itself
> first. I beleive this can be done by executing "yum update yum". Who
> knows... maybe yum needs an update to work?
>
> Good luck!
>
> MWood
>
It's a bug in yum. I've had this happen many times to me. Yum goes
off to check dependencies and then exits. Just run 'yum update' again
and everything will install.
-- Kam Leo
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