> > Tim Holmes wrote: > > I have built several servers using Fedora Core 3, and normally, I use > > yum to keep them up to date with no problems -- it works nicely, > > however, I have one particular one which uses the newer version of MySQL > > -- 4.1xx > > > > When I run a yum update, yum wants to roll me back to version 3x, which > > is obviously not desirable. Is this normal behavior, or am I doing > > something wrong. I would like to get everything up to date, so that I > > am not running the risk of security vulnerabilities. > > Did you install MySQL 4.x using rpms, and not using any daft options > like --nodeps or --force? If so, yum should not be doing this. > > Can you report the output of: > $ rpm -qa | grep -i mysql > on this machine? > > Paul. > [Tim Holmes] Hi Paul: Thanks for your response I just installed straight up from the rpms -- it went quite smoothly as well - this was a fresh rebuild of the server Here is the output of that command [root@srvweb-01 ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql MySQL-client-4.1.12-1 MySQL-server-4.1.12-1 [root@srvweb-01 ~]# Thanks a bunch TIM
