On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 19:26 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Quicksort wrote: > > > > Platform: *Fedora 17 x64* > > > > > > Hello everybody, > > > > Usually, updates frequency is high. But for about one week, none. > > > > How can I check my installed YUM (refresh-packagekit ?) still > > correctly does its work ? And what should I do if it does not ? > > > I have cron run "yum -y --downloadonly upgrade" daily, and I have the option to > keep packages set in yum.conf. At a civilized hour I check the mail and see > what's to be updated, and apply some or all of the packages. > > To check that things are working, just "yum check-update" can be run manually, > it typically will download some metadata and present a list of what needs > update, if anything. It's relatively fast, and will give you that "warm fuzzy > feeling" that everything is ok, or tell you for certain that it's not. > > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot I was about to comment that one could also do "yum -assumeno update", until I tried it. Currently, "yum check-update" is giving an error: $ yum check-update Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, security google/primary | 1.4 kB 00:00:00 http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from google: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum whereas "yum -assumeno update" gives me a list of packages to update, and no error. This violates the Principle of Least Astonishment, or is it a bug? poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
