On 3/30/06, J. K. Cliburn <jcliburn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/30/06, Jacques B. <jjrboucher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Over the past several days it seems like yum is not doing any updates.
> I see postings on the list of updates, and my PC at the office seems
> to be grabbing the later versions, but not at home. For example
> mlocate-0.14-0.fc5.1 is out. My installed version is
> mlocate-0.12-1.2. But when I do a yum update, it says no updates
> (same applies to the recent kernel release, it's not picking that up).
> I even went so far as to do a yum remove of mlocate and then a yum
> install of it and sure enough it still grabbed the -0.12-1.2 version
> rather than the latest one. I have not been messing with the .repos
> so I can't understand why it has stopped updating. Any suggestions?
Strange, but now it's working. Didn't do the yum clean all (or yum
clean packages). I do run that once in a while, but it doesn't appear
to be necessary (at least never has been). I'm wondering if somehow
things are setup to regulate the number of systems updating by
staggering updates. I can't imagine as they would have to selectively
chose to disadvantage some people by delaying their patching.
Probably what may have been happening is that a maximum number of
connections to the repos was being reached. I was getting a single
update here and there, but not complete list of updates. Might that
have been the problem?
At least I now know it's not the configuration of my system. That was
my main concern as that is the only thing I have direct control over
correcting.
Thanks,
Jacques B.