up2date problem?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:50, Adrian Likins wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:56:28PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > Just upgraded to up2date-4.1.5-1 (about 30 sec ago)... progress dialog
> > is frozen at the "Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies"
> > stage. There are a large number of entries in the main dialog for
> > Canna-3.6-22, I can't tell how many due to the modality of the progress
> > dialog.
> > 
> > The /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file has commented out the default line
> > for "up2date default", and instead only has a persistent directive for 
> > "yum rawhide http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/".
> > 
> > Changing the directive back to the default and re-running up2date fixed
> > the problem, apparently, since the update is now working correctly.
> > 
> > I just added to bugzilla, in case anyone wants to comment:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106825
> 
> 	New versions of up2date for fedora use a
> yum repo for fedora as the default channel now.
> And yes, it can be very slow on the first run
> though while it downloads headers. I'll try
> to make the dep solve progress stuff a bit
> prettier for yum repos this week sometimes
> if I get a chance.

Great. I've since moved to the yum repo as the default; I just thought
devel-people should be aware that the strange behavior is noteworthy.
Thanks and keep up the good work.

-- 
Paul W. Frields, RHCE