-----Original Message----- From: fedora-devel-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-devel-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark McLoughlin Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 2:26 AM To: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: latest update Hi, On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 23:34, Richard Hally wrote: > I understand it is "development" ! (eats babies) 8-). > This just happened, ~ 5 PM eastern. I've been having very inconsistent > results using yum. For example, it tells me "no packages available for > update" when I know there are packages to update. > If I try it with just download.fedora.Redhat.com the failover method > sometimes fails, when I try it with several mirrors in addition to > download.fedora.Redhat.com sometimes it works and some times it doesn't. > > My question is: is this normal? If not am I doing some thing wrong and what > additional information will be useful in finding out what? Should I cut and > paste terminal output with date and time and yum.conf? It appears to be normal, but what I'm quite surprised about is that there appears to be no --just-do-the-best-you-can flag for yum? Yikes! It is surprising that yum operates so inconsistently. If you do the same thing twice one right after the other you can get different results. The thing that bothers me is the "false negative" saying that there is nothing to update when in fact there is. But that kind of stuff is for the "yum list" isn't it. Richard Hally
