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From: fedora-devel-list-admin(a)redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-devel-list-admin@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark McLoughlin
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 2:26 AM
To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: RE: latest update
Hi,
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 23:34, Richard Hally wrote:
I understand it is "development" ! (eats babies) 8-).
This just happened, ~ 5 PM eastern. I've been having very inconsistent
results using yum. For example, it tells me "no packages available for
update" when I know there are packages to update.
If I try it with just
download.fedora.Redhat.com the failover method
sometimes fails, when I try it with several mirrors in addition to
download.fedora.Redhat.com sometimes it works and some times it doesn't.
My question is: is this normal? If not am I doing some thing wrong and
what
additional information will be useful in finding out what? Should I
cut
and
paste terminal output with date and time and yum.conf?
It appears to be normal, but what I'm quite surprised about is that
there appears to be no --just-do-the-best-you-can flag for yum?
Yikes! It is surprising that yum operates so inconsistently. If you do the
same thing twice one right after the other you can get different results.
The thing that bothers me is the "false negative" saying that there is
nothing to update when in fact there is. But that kind of stuff is for the
"yum list" isn't it.
Richard Hally