Updating with yum -- etc

[Paul Howarth]

Tim Holmes wrote:
>>Tim Holmes wrote:
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>>>I have built several servers using Fedora Core 3, and normally, I
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> use
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>>>yum to keep them up to date with no problems -- it works nicely,
>>>however, I have one particular one which uses the newer version of
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> MySQL
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>>>-- 4.1xx
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>>>When I run a yum update, yum wants to roll me back to version 3x,
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> which
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>>>is obviously not desirable.  Is this normal behavior, or am I doing
>>>something wrong.  I would like to get everything up to date, so that
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> I
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>>>am not running the risk of security vulnerabilities.
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>>Did you install MySQL 4.x using rpms, and not using any daft options
>>like --nodeps or --force? If so, yum should not be doing this.
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>>Can you report the output of:
>>$ rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
>>on this machine?
>>
>>Paul.
>>
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> [Tim Holmes] 
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> Hi Paul:
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> Thanks for your response
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> I just installed straight up from the rpms -- it went quite smoothly as
> well - this was a fresh rebuild of the server
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> Here is the output of that command
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> [root at srvweb-01 ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
> MySQL-client-4.1.12-1
> MySQL-server-4.1.12-1
> [root at srvweb-01 ~]#

What does "yum check-update" output?

Paul.