Yum doesn't appear to update packages anymore
Jacques B.
jjrboucher at gmail.com
Fri Mar 31 02:14:12 UTC 2006
On 3/30/06, J. K. Cliburn <jcliburn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/30/06, Jacques B. <jjrboucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Over the past several days it seems like yum is not doing any updates.
> > I see postings on the list of updates, and my PC at the office seems
> > to be grabbing the later versions, but not at home. For example
> > mlocate-0.14-0.fc5.1 is out. My installed version is
> > mlocate-0.12-1.2. But when I do a yum update, it says no updates
> > (same applies to the recent kernel release, it's not picking that up).
> > I even went so far as to do a yum remove of mlocate and then a yum
> > install of it and sure enough it still grabbed the -0.12-1.2 version
> > rather than the latest one. I have not been messing with the .repos
> > so I can't understand why it has stopped updating. Any suggestions?
>
Strange, but now it's working. Didn't do the yum clean all (or yum
clean packages). I do run that once in a while, but it doesn't appear
to be necessary (at least never has been). I'm wondering if somehow
things are setup to regulate the number of systems updating by
staggering updates. I can't imagine as they would have to selectively
chose to disadvantage some people by delaying their patching.
Probably what may have been happening is that a maximum number of
connections to the repos was being reached. I was getting a single
update here and there, but not complete list of updates. Might that
have been the problem?
At least I now know it's not the configuration of my system. That was
my main concern as that is the only thing I have direct control over
correcting.
Thanks,
Jacques B.
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