YUM do I really have to run yum twice ?

[Patrick Nelson]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

>On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 21:17:46 +0200, Hans Christian Studt wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I seems like I always have to run yum twice in order to have packages downloaded and installed. The first run will only download the headers.
>>When I run the second time it will download the missing packages and install them.
>>
>>Is this how it is supposed to work ?
>>
>>---------------------
>>(/etc) #yum -y update
>>Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>>Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
>>Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
>>Finding updated packages
>>Downloading needed headers
>>gaim-1-0.82-0.FC2.i386.hd 100% |=========================|  20 kB    00:05
>>samba-common-0-3.0.6-2.fc 100% |=========================|  11 kB    00:02
>>krb5-devel-0-1.3.4-6.i386 100% |=========================|  11 kB    00:02
>>samba-client-0-3.0.6-2.fc 100% |=========================|  10 kB    00:02
>>samba-0-3.0.6-2.fc2.i386. 100% |=========================|  31 kB    00:08
>>mc-1-4.6.0-17.fc2.i386.hd 100% |=========================|  12 kB    00:05
>>krb5-libs-0-1.3.4-6.i386. 100% |=========================| 8.8 kB    00:06
>>krb5-workstation-0-1.3.4- 100% |=========================|  12 kB    00:04
>>krb5-server-0-1.3.4-6.i38 100% |=========================|  10 kB    00:02
>>samba-swat-0-3.0.6-2.fc2. 100% |=========================|  24 kB    00:06
>>Resolving dependencies
>>    
>>
Did it terminate or did you terminate it?  Try using the debug mode to 
watch what is happening.   The resolving dependencies takes some time so 
maybe (? just) the system is timing out or you are canceling it.  The 
debug that should help show this is:

  (/etc) #yum -d 5 -y update

HTH