Red Hat Network Up2Date problem
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at sbcglobal.net
Wed Sep 1 02:30:38 UTC 2004
neil.derraugh at sympatico.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The up2date icon on my task bar (system tray?) is telling me there are 6 updates to be had (0 ignored). But when I run the app it, after querying the servers, it tells me that my system is up2date (sorry couldn't resist). This has been going on for several weeks (if not months).
>
> Any one know why? Or how to resolve this issue?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Neil Derraugh
>
>
Several reasons can cause the updates available on the notification and
no updates found when running up2date. One reason is if you use yum and
the repostories selected are not as up2date as the main repository or
selected repositories within the config file.
Another reason is that the mirror selection utility finds the fastest
mirrors or just randomly selects mirrors. If it selects the fastest,
this would be less congested because of the programs available are
behind current, maybe a day or two behind.
A reason could also be that the archetecture of programs that you
installed are a different archetecture than the rpms you installed. This
could happen if you compiled a program for your arcetecture and a newer
version is now available.
If you click on the panel icon, a screen should apear were you can see
what programs are said to be available.
A feature of up2date that prevents downloading and installing the wrong
archetecture rpm is that it will not select, download and install a
different archetecture rpm, this prevents snafus with critical rpms that
are i686 and different archs. If it did not have this care, things could
get messy.
The applet shows packages that might be newer than the one installed and
comes in handy if you compile from src rpms. You can download the
source, compile, then install the newer versions in your preferred arch
type.
Also, if you want to ignore these hangng around packages appearing in
the norification applet, you can move these programs to your ignore
packages area on the screen that pops up when you click on the icon.
I hope this helps out a bit.
Jim
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