Yum?
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Fri Nov 11 18:32:39 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 10:23 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
> Yesterday I ran yum update on my laptop and got the new kernel and a
> couple of other packages. Everything worked just fine. Then I ran
> yum update on my desktop and the first time I ran it there were no
> updates. I thought that was odd because there were for the laptop
> and they have similar FC4 installations. So I ran it again and there
> were a couple of packages but not the kernel. So I ran it one more
> time and the new kernel showed up. Is this normal behavior? Any
> ideas why it would take three tries to make yum get all of the
> packages? There were no errors reported at any time. I have had it
> switch to different mirrors before but not this time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Knute Johnson
> Molon Labe...
>
>
>
Knute,
It takes time for the mirrors to update. Running yum multiple times
will likely pick different mirrors each time and may find different
updates available.
Bob...
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