[Yum-devel] very strange yum behaviour

[Chris Geddings]

What does your yum.conf look like?

Could this be hitting different mirrors in different runs?  Such that
one mirror has an update available, and another hasn't gotten all the
updates synced yet?

I see some failover lines in the output, but I'm not quite familiar
enough with debugging
these problems to know if that is indeed what the output indicates.

--Chris

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 00:10:14 +0200, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a fedora core development and I see that really extraordinary bug of
> yum. It is not reproducible. Some time yum don't want to update a package,
> another time yum wants to !!!
> 
> I cut and paste the commands and the results, those commands were run one
> after another.
> 
> The example is with tetex, but it is the same with other packages.
> 
> =====================================================================
> [root at localhost root]# yum update tetex
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
> Server: Fedora stable 2
> Server: Fedora testing 2
> Server: Fedora unstable 2
> Server: Fedora updates 2
> Server: Fedora updates testing 2
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages 1 (stable)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages 1 (testing)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages 1 (unstable)
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> Dependencies resolved
> I will do the following:
> [update: tetex 2.0.2-15.i386]
> Is this ok [y/N]: n
> Exiting on user command.
> [root at localhost root]# yum update tetex
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
> Server: Fedora stable 2
> Server: Fedora testing 2
> Server: Fedora unstable 2
> Server: Fedora updates 2
> Server: Fedora updates testing 2
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages 1 (stable)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages 1 (testing)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages 1 (unstable)
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> tetex is installed and the latest version.
> No actions to take
> [root at localhost root]#
> =================================================================
> 
> The right thing would indeed to update the tetex package. There is a
> tetex 2.0.2-15.i386 header, and the installed one is tetex-2.0.2-14.
> 
> Is it a known issue?
> 
> I attach the stdout of
> # yum -d 10 update gawk
> gawk not flagged as to be updated: yum_update_gawk.wrong
> gawk flagged as update: yum_update_gawk.right
> 
> What else could I do to help debugging that?
> 
> Pat
> 
> 
> 
> yum_update_gawk.wrong - 538K Download 
> yum_update_gawk.right - 658K Download 
> noname - 1K Download 
>