yum question: downloaded headers but no updates

[Dean Mumby]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> Dean Mumby wrote:
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>> yes
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> WTF?  That is singly useless, Dean.  If you're going to comment on
> something, a) stop top posting, and b) post something useful.  A single
> word answer that doesn't even address the question is spectacularly
> stupid.

"Is all of this completely normal operating procedure for yum? "
once again YES

When I started using Linux 5 years ago , I was told that first google , 
second google, third  read the man , that being said , I felt lets 
answer the question , if he wants to know more , he will hopefully go 
and have a look , it took me all of one search to find this link

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/howitworks.ptml

I have over 22000 messages in my FC1 folder and it is mostly because 
people dont want to bother with doing the research for themselves , 
Linux is a very powerful OS and although I agree with increasing its 
adoption rate , I also believe it is the availability of information 
that's makes its users more competent.

Spoon feeding is not the best solution.

Regards
Dean

I trust you feel satisfied with your spectacularly intelligent answer.






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>> Clint wrote:
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>>> Every now and again, I notice that yum will download needed headers, 
>>> which makes me think that an update is about to be done, only to 
>>> report no updates are needed. My yum.conf is mostly a copy of that 
>>> found at artoo, but with an exclude=kernel* line and a seamonkey 
>>> repo section.
>>>
>>> My question is, what is yum doing with the headers if there are no 
>>> updates to be done? Is all of this completely normal operating 
>>> procedure for yum? I'm "curious" about how it's working, rather than 
>>> "sleeplessly concerned" something is going wrong! <grin>
>>>
>>> Here is one such example displaying the symptoms that I notice:
>>>
>>> # yum update
>>> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>>> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
>>> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
>>> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Testing)
>>> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Unstable)
>>> Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
>>> Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
>>> Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
>>> Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin
>>> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
>>> Finding updated packages
>>> Downloading needed headers
>>> perl-Net-SCP-0-0.07-0.fdr 100% |=========================| 1.8 kB    
>>> 00:00
>>> nvidia-glx-devel-0-1.0.53 100% |=========================| 3.3 kB    
>>> 00:00
>>> No Packages Available for Update
>>> No actions to take
>>>
>>> I didn't see any description of this behavior in man yum. Any 
>>> insight would be appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Clint
>>>
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