Yum weirdness

Dave Roberts ldave at droberts.com
Fri Jun 18 19:59:29 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 12:46, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:42:31 -0700, Dave Roberts wrote:
> 
> > So, can somebody explain this sequence of Yum runs to me? These are all
> > run back to back. I first do a "yum list updates." Yum tells me that the
> > libpng packages are due for update. I then run "yum -y update" to get
> > them all, and it tells me that there are no packages available for
> > update and no actions to take. Then, I run it again ("yum -y update")
> > and it goes ahead and does the update. I have had this happen to me a
> > few times so far.
> 
> Do you have multiple mirrors for FC1 Updates configured in /etc/yum.conf?

Yes, about 5. Are you implying that I'm seeing a sync issue between
mirrors? Does Yum somehow not pick the same mirror everytime? I had
figured this was just a case of it trying the first one, then if that's
down or busy trying the second, etc., etc. Does it just randomize its
selection?
 
-- 
Dave Roberts <ldave at droberts.com>





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