Mystery of yum update
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Fri Oct 24 22:28:31 UTC 2008
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
>> I am running Fedora-9 on two Thinkpads, a T23 and a T43.
>> When I ran "yum update" on both this morning,
>> the T43 updated the kernel to kernel-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.rpm
>> while the T23 did not update kernel-2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686.rpm .
>>
>> Why didn't the T23 update?
>> Is it just a question of the machines finding different repositories?
>> This seems puzzling, as 2.6.26 had been out for some time, I think.
>>
>
> Latest kernel would be kernel-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686.rpm
>
> Does the T23 have the newkey repositories?
I just checked, and the newkey repositories are there,
in /etc/yum.repos.d .
Amazingly, I then ran "yum update" again,
and it is now downloading 600MB.
Nothing else has changed, so it must just be the luck of repository.
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Timothy Murphy
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