yum question: downloaded headers but no updates

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Mar 22 23:42:45 UTC 2004


Dean Mumby wrote:
> yes

WTF?  That is singly useless, Dean.  If you're going to comment on
something, a) stop top posting, and b) post something useful.  A single
word answer that doesn't even address the question is spectacularly
stupid.

> Clint wrote:
> 
>> Every now and again, I notice that yum will download needed headers, 
>> which makes me think that an update is about to be done, only to 
>> report no updates are needed. My yum.conf is mostly a copy of that 
>> found at artoo, but with an exclude=kernel* line and a seamonkey repo 
>> section.
>>
>> My question is, what is yum doing with the headers if there are no 
>> updates to be done? Is all of this completely normal operating 
>> procedure for yum? I'm "curious" about how it's working, rather than 
>> "sleeplessly concerned" something is going wrong! <grin>
>>
>> Here is one such example displaying the symptoms that I notice:
>>
>> # yum update
>> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
>> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
>> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Testing)
>> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Unstable)
>> Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
>> Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
>> Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
>> Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin
>> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
>> Finding updated packages
>> Downloading needed headers
>> perl-Net-SCP-0-0.07-0.fdr 100% |=========================| 1.8 kB    
>> 00:00
>> nvidia-glx-devel-0-1.0.53 100% |=========================| 3.3 kB    
>> 00:00
>> No Packages Available for Update
>> No actions to take
>>
>> I didn't see any description of this behavior in man yum. Any insight 
>> would be appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Clint
>>
> 
> 


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