Yum?

[Vassilios Kotoulas]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 10:23 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
> Yesterday I ran yum update on my laptop and got the new kernel and a 
> couple of other packages.  Everything worked just fine.  Then I ran 
> yum update on my desktop and the first time I ran it there were no 
> updates.  I thought that was odd because there were for the laptop 
> and they have similar FC4 installations.  So I ran it again and there 
> were a couple of packages but not the kernel.  So I ran it one more 
> time and the new kernel showed up.  Is this normal behavior?  Any 
> ideas why it would take three tries to make yum get all of the 
> packages?  There were no errors reported at any time.  I have had it 
> switch to different mirrors before but not this time.

hi,

is your yum configured with a base url or with a mirrorlist? if you use
a mirrorlist be aware, that not all mirrors have the same packages at
the same time. some are faster, some are slower. 

regards
vassilios