New Firefox vs. Up2date

[Scott G. Elliott]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:27:31 -0800
> From: Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net>
> To: Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: New Firefox vs. Up2date
>
> The Red Hat Network Notification Tool (KDE Applet) tells me correctly
> that there is a new version of Firefox available.  The version on the
> nachine is firefox-1.0-2.fc3.x86_64.rpm, while the latest version on the
> server is firefox-1.0.1-1.3.1.x86_64.rpm.  Nevertheless, up2date doesn't
> report the new version as available for installation.
>
> Does anyone know why this is?  Is the new firefox worth hand
> installation?
> --
> Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net>
> Berkeley Linux Team
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I have this on FC2 also, if you wait a while, it should be fine in
up2date, my guess is that the headers are listed before the actual
packages are made available, if it doesnt show up for real by the next
day, then there might be a problem.

-Scott