Re: Odd behavior with up2date

["Thomas Cameron" <thomas cameron camerontech com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vanco, Don" <don vanco agilysys com>
To: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant) Discussion List" 
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Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: Odd behavior with up2date


> I've got a fresh install of RHEL4 on a 1st gen Compaq DL320 (P-III 800,
> 1GB, SCSI).
>
> I just ran up2date for the first time (from cli)
>
> It did all the required checks, pulled all the files.... and then sat
> for about 7 minutes seemingly doing nothing (nothing in messages, the
> up2date log, no disk activity, etc) after downloading the final rpm
> (which happened to be xpdf)
>
> Then it finally went to "Preparing... blah blah blah" and did the
> install.
>
> ??
>
> Don

It is running an under-the-hood check for dependencies and such, building 
the install order and such.  On an old machine like yours it take a long 
time.  Especially the first time you run it - there are a TON of updates 
already!

Thomas