Perhaps a bug in "yum update"

[David Bear]

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On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>wrote:

> A rebulddb doesn't fix the problem.   yum is version 3.2.22-20,el
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:42 AM, David Bear wrote:
>
>  You might also try 'rpm -rebuilddb' as sometimes the rpm database gets
>> corrupted.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  Thanks for the suggestions, but they did not solve the problem.
>>> "yum update" still bounces between the two packages.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 17, 2009, at 4:27 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>
>>> Margaret,
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Try the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> yum clean all
>>>>>
>>>>> yum update
>>>>>
>>>>> I have encountered similar issue like this in the past.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Or, one that I just had while upgrading from CentOS 5.3 to 5.4 at work,
>>>> yum -y update yum
>>>> yum clean all
>>>> yum update
>>>>
>>>>    mark
>>>>
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>>>>
>


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