Re: warning about up2date

[Joel Grimes <joel stirlingbridge com>]

Getting exactly this same behavior - including the Kernel update problem 
in the bug report.


Gene C. wrote:

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119538
>
> After having the up2date problem with the kernel, I attempted to do some 
> additional installs.  I tried to install all outstanding updates but up2date 
> chocked on that (backtrace).  So I tried something small -- a2ps, anaconda, 
> anaconda-runtime and the four amanda-* packages.  Everthing downloaded and 
> the install looked fine (at first) but the install progress bar did not 
> complete even if the finish message appeared.  Clicked once to get the list 
> of installed packages and up2date said everything was installed.  I then 
> checked with rpm queries ... amanada was not only not updated but it was now 
> removed from the system.
>
> Caution ... do not believe up2date processing ... be sure to manually check 
> all up2dating using up2date.
>  

Message I was about to send, but you beat me to it:

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I ran up2date on a clean Test 2 install.  There's like 100 updates, so i 
try to take them 10 or so at a time.

After downloading, it goes to install, but in some cases, it'll skip one 
of the downloaded updates - leaving the progress bar (bottom one) some 
distance from the end and yet it stops and enables the FINISH button.  
Which i click.  Then run it again.

Second time around, one of the updates i just downloaded is still 
available for download.  So i select it again to give it another shot, 
but it never gets removed from the AVAILABLE list.
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