Updating test 3

[Will Backman]

See if you have a bunch of extra headers in /var/spool/up2date.
If so, delete them, up2date up2date first, then try again.
Older up2date downloaded headers for all arch.

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 12:32, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I know this has been covered rather extensively but it seems I've lost
> track of the last best way to do an up2date no test3.
> 
> I've included the line in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> 
>   yum rawhide http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/
> 
> Running up2date -u shows a huge list of things to update, get to the
> dependancy resolving part and seems eventuall to hang completely.
> It ran over 2hrs and had resouces pegged at 96% at the end of that
> time, before I sig KILL'ed it.
> 
> On the other hand a `yum upgrade' shows the following output:
>    [root at exp root]# yum upgrade
>    Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>    Server: Red Hat Linux 0.95 - i386 - Base
>    Server: Red Hat Linux 0.95 - Updates
>    Finding updated packages
>    Downloading needed headers
>    Finding obsoleted packages
>    Resolving dependencies
>    .Dependencies resolved
>    I will do the following:
>    [update: compat-db 4.0.14-2.i386]
>    I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies:
>    [deps: compat-libstdc++ 7.3-2.96.118.i386]
>    Is this ok [y/N]: y
>    Getting compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm
>    Getting compat-db-4.0.14-2.i386.rpm
>    Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit
>    compat-libstdc++ 100 % done 1/2 
>    compat-db 100 % done 2/2 
>    Updated:  compat-db 4.0.14-2.i386
>    Dep Installed:  compat-libstdc++ 7.3-2.96.118.i386
>    Transaction(s) Complete
> 
> That is, 2 pkgs upgraded.
> 
> So what is happening here?  I'm not supposed to use up2date now?
> 
> 
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