[Yum] yum update::error,warning,... messages

Thomas Bennett bennetttm at appstate.edu
Fri Jul 16 15:17:34 UTC 2004


On a recent "yum update" I saw in the status messages during update that
Yum "removed" dvdrecord-...  just before or after updating K3B.  I had
separately installed dvdrecord outside of Yum.

Tom

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:38, Ali Korhan Üstüner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use yum to update linux servers and sometimes I see messages like
> “warning: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf created as
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.rpmnew” as an output of “yum update” command.
> 
> But today, I have encountered a situation that yum erased syslog-ng
> package (installed on the system) while updating sysklogd package. I
> think, this might be a great problem on servers if yum update is
> automated via a cron job, because erasing these packages might effect
> running services on the servers dramatically.
> 
> I wonder if there is another senario (unexpected circumstance) that
> might occur during yum update....
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> Thanx in advance...
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> E-mail: ustunera at itu.edu.tr
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