Hi, Having just run "yum" for the first time, I have some questions I hope someone can help me with. My system: vanilla RH8.0 install, with yum 1.0.3 added. I have mirrored the rh8 updates directory from updates.redhat.com to a local server, run yum-arch, then ran yum against that repository. -------------------------------- The last lines of the yum output are: Adding glibc-debug into 'a' state localhdrpath= /var/cache/yum/ecn-redhat-8.0-stable/headers/glibc-debug-0-2.3.2-4.80.6.i386.hdr for glibc-debug i386 # of Deps = 1 debug dep: iptables req stat - - 0 No suggestion for iptables needing stat Restarting Dependency Loop .package iptables needs stat (not provided) Is this a success or a failure??? If a failure, does anyone have an idea what it is complaining about? -------------------------------- I saw a lot of output like this: Adding kmix into 'a' state localhdrpath= /var/cache/yum/ecn-redhat-8.0-stable/headers/kmix-6-3.0.5a-2.i386.hdr for kmix i386 Does this "a" state mean that "yum" has recognised that the local os does *not* have this package installed, and so has ignored it, and will ignore it in future? Running "rpm -qa | grep kmix" reports nothing, so I presume it wasn't installed... ------------------------------ Updating: openssh, i386 localhdrpath= /var/cache/yum/ecn-redhat-8.0-stable/headers/openssh-0-3.4p1-7.i386.hdr for openssh i386 Not an install only pkg, adding to ts I would have thought this meant that openssh has been upgraded to 3.4p1-7. However "rpm -q openssh" reports "openssh-3.4p1-2", implying that the local system has not been upgraded. Any idea what happened? ------------------------------- Oh, and if this sort of info is available in a document anywhere, please point me to it so I don't bother the list with it. Google didn't bring up any references, and it isn't in the excellent (though only partially written) document at: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO.html (thanks, Robert & Jonathan). Thanks in advance, Simon
