another Yum problem

[Claude Jones]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 2:45 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 01:12 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> > Tonight, even though I do yum updates several times a week, I came up
> > with a list of 633 updates available. How could this be? I did an rpm
> > rebuilddb and I run yum clean all, but I still get this huge list. I
> > can't believe so many packages have new updates in the past 48 hours, or
> > less. My repos are the standard Fedora including extras and development,
> > Livna, and KDE-Redhat.
>
> Check out a sample of what it's saying needs updating.
>
> Do "yum check-update" to get a list of the packages that need updating.
>
> For some of those packages, do "rpm -q packagename" to see which version
> you have installed. Compare that with what yum is suggesting to install.
> Is the version yum is suggesting later?
>
> Which repositories are the majority of the updates from? Have you
> enabled a development repo by mistake?
>
> Paul.
> --

Thanks, Paul. I 'do' intend to do that. The problem occurred very late last 
night when I was dealing with several issues at once, so I didn't get around 
to this step - but, I have learned enough to know to do that <g>, and, to not 
let the updates proceed. I shall investigate this when I get home. I remember 
this occurring with FC3 several months back, and the problem went away on its 
own, so I was holding off the heavy diagnostics due to the hour. I posted 
just to see if there was anything about yesterday's activities in the FC4 
world that could be causing this, external to my situation. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA