How To Force Yum To Update
Thomas Springer
th.springer at gmx.net
Mon Jan 23 01:45:18 UTC 2006
Am Sonntag, den 22.01.2006, 16:31 -0800 schrieb jdow:
> >>> Each time I ran 'yum update' I
> >>> would get responses very similar to this:
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> >>> primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 969 kB
> >>> 00:34
> >>> extras : ################################################## 2815/2815
> >>> Added 15 new packages, deleted 12 old in 3.45 seconds
> >>> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
>
> Observe that above. If there are only 15 new packages and 12 deleted
> packages something is doing updates behind your back. Please check it
> out rather than "presume" she needs an update.
>
> >>> I know she needs an openoffice update. I don't think yum is running
> >>> nightly, but I didn't check for that either, so I could be wrong.
See the output of:
% /sbin/service yum status
(e.g.) "Nightly yum update is enabled."
You might want to instruct your mother-in-law to do that for *you*.
> >>
> >>
> >> How do you know it is needed? Is it possible she's already updated via
> >> a cron job? What does "rpm -q openoffice.org-core" return? It returns
> >> "openoffice.org.core-2.0.1.1-5.1" here. And this is from a VERY recent
> >> update, in the day or so.
> >>
Applied updates are:
o logged to /var/log/yum.log by default
o listed in logwatch-report
% rpm -qa --last | head #
Shows the last # installed/upgraded packages with full name.
> I'm not sure of this but I believe the default install involves a cron
> job for yum updates.
It would make perfect sense, though the RELEASE NOTES don't mention this
and i can't remember for sure.
Thomas
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