up2date is confusing me

Sean Earp smearp at mac.com
Tue Mar 16 13:31:34 UTC 2004


That having been said...  '

This morning the RedHat Alert Notification Tool reported 93 new 
packages, while the actual up2date program reports that I am fully 
updated as Thomas experienced below.  Does this need to be Bugzillad?  
(up2date version 4.3.11-2.1.1)

-Sean

On Mar 16, 2004, at 5:13 AM, Sean Earp wrote:

> I had the exact same thing happen.  I was able to update it by running:
>
> yum update switchdesk      from the terminal.
>
> Worked For Me (tm)!
>
> -Sean :)
>
> On Mar 15, 2004, at 6:29 PM, Thomas Molina wrote:
>
>> I launched the RedHat Alert Notification Tool, which said I had an
>> available update for switchdesk.  It said I had switchdesk-3.9.8-18 
>> and
>> switchdesk-4.0.1-1.1 was available.  I then click on the button to 
>> launch
>> up2date which says your system is fully updated, no new packages are
>> needed.  wtfo?? The two statements seem contradictory.

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