header/RPM mismatch

[-=Brian Truter=-]

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> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Fulko.Hew at sita.aero
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 8:22 AM
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> Subject: header/RPM mismatch
> 
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> 
> Yesterday I was complaining about missing RPMs and the fact 
> that the update icon, and up2date were out of sync., so today 
> I thought I'd look at it some more.
> 
> Today, my icon still says there are 2 RPMs to upgrade, but 
> up2date says that only one is available.  But up2date hangs 
> while trying to resolve dependencies.
> 
> So I went back to using yum.
> 
> Yum told me that there are two other RPMs (gaim and 
> rpmdb-fedora) that needed updating, and that there were 
> problems with perl-XML-Twig that needs XML::Path, which is not found.
> 
> So again I told it to ignore perl-XML-Twig, and yum installed 
> gaim and rpmdb-fedora.  But alas the icon and up2date are 
> still as confused as ever.
> 
> Looking at the alert notification tool I see that it says:
> 
> Package         Version Installed        Version Available
> perl-Net-DNS    perl-Net-DNS-0.31.3.2    perl-Net-DNS-0.45-2
> perl-XML-Twig   perl-XML-Twig-3.09-3     perl-XML-Twig-3.13-4
> 
> OK, I need perl-XML-Twig-3.13-4.  So I manually look at the mirror
> site: 
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS
> and the only version of perl-XML-Twig it has is 3.09-3 and 
> the same goes for perl-Net-DNS (only the old version).
> 
> 
> Now i look in the mirrors header directory, and they don't 
> have the new version either.  But at some time, my system did 
> fetch that header and now it thinks that's what it needs.
> 
> Did someone release new versions of the headers, without the 
> RPMs, (that my machine sucked)... and then pulled back the 
> new headers, (causing my machine to get into a mode)?
> 
> 
> 1/ If so, why?
> 2/ And how do I get my machine to forget about the headers 
> that point to
>    non-existant RPMs?
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I didn't see your post from yersterday, so sorry if this was stated before
but,

Is your up2date using the same repository as yum? Both tools can be pointed
at completely different repos. Up2date has its configuration file in
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources, and yum has its in /etc/yum.conf.

If they are not using the same repository, you will get results like you are
explaining. Also, updates that come out from fedora.redhat.com arent picked
up by mirrors immediately. There is varying time periods before each mirror
will sync with the main repo.