[Yum] Using Yum with Mandrake 9.2

[David Relson]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:12:34 -0500
seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:

> 
> > I've found urpmi quite useful.  I had to upgrade a number of
> > packages just to meet yum's requirements.  After that, "yum upgrade"
> > did load a bundle of 237 packages to complete the Mandrake 9.1 to
> > 9.2 transition. That was pretty slick.  In the 3 weeks since, "yum
> > check-update" hasn't found anything to do :-(
> 
> Check your /var/log/yum.log - you might have yum running nightly from
> the cron job and therefore yum check-update run manually would
> seldomly find things.
> 
> -sv

Seth,

I know "yum check-update" is running nightly because cron emails the
daily reports.  The last log entry is from the massive upgrade on 12/19
at 15:28.  (Guess I was off on my 3 week inactivity estimate :-(

David