Perhaps a bug in "yum update"

David Bear David.Bear at asu.edu
Fri Dec 18 16:42:41 UTC 2009


You might also try 'rpm -rebuilddb' as sometimes the rpm database gets
corrupted.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions, but they did not solve the problem.
> "yum update" still bounces between the two packages.
>
>
>
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 4:27 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>  Margaret,
>>>
>>> Try the following:
>>>
>>> yum clean all
>>>
>>> yum update
>>>
>>> I have encountered similar issue like this in the past.
>>>
>>
>> Or, one that I just had while upgrading from CentOS 5.3 to 5.4 at work,
>> yum -y update yum
>> yum clean all
>> yum update
>>
>>      mark
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