Perhaps a bug in "yum update"

[Margaret Doll]

A rebulddb doesn't fix the problem.   yum is version 3.2.22-20,el

On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:42 AM, David Bear wrote:

> 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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