yum update - Software Updater

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Mon May 1 09:09:40 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 00:04 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> On 4/30/06, Dennis Castanos <dennismouille at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I just did a "yum -y update".  Rebooted and went to Sysytem Tools, Software
> > Updater, and it also had files to uddate.  I'm new at linux and like to know
> > what's up between the two different ways to update Fedora 5.
> > Dennis
> >
> 
> Why the paranoia? FC is not a static world. Additional packages were
> uploaded to the mirrors between your last update and reboot. Happens
> all the time.
> 

It's also possible that the first update chose a mirror that wasn't
fully synced with the latest, and the second update got a mirror with
the latest.




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