[Yum] yum update bug
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Sep 23 16:47:19 UTC 2002
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 11:38, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Howdy,
> It seems there is a bug with yum update when it needs to update packages that
> have various architectures. I could have sworn that this used to work, but
> now it isn't.
> The problem is that if a package has multiple architectures (such as glibc or
> kernel that have i386 and i686) and the user tries to update just that package
> (yum update kernel -or- yum update glibc) then yum tells them that the file is
> up to date, when it really isn't.
>
> Here's the problem in more detail
>
> #yum list kernel
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Fermi Linux 731 main
> Getting headers from: Fermi Linux 731 updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Looking in Available Packages:
> Name Arch Version
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> kernel i686 2.4.18-10
>
>
> #yum update kernel
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Fermi Linux 731 main
> Getting headers from: Fermi Linux 731 updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> kernel is the latest version
>
run a yum -d 4 update kernel.
send an attachment of the output.
thanks
-sv
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