Knute Johnson wrote:
Yesterday I ran yum update on my laptop and got the new kernel and a
couple of other packages. Everything worked just fine. Then I ran
yum update on my desktop and the first time I ran it there were no
updates. I thought that was odd because there were for the laptop
and they have similar FC4 installations. So I ran it again and there
were a couple of packages but not the kernel. So I ran it one more
time and the new kernel showed up. Is this normal behavior? Any
ideas why it would take three tries to make yum get all of the
packages? There were no errors reported at any time. I have had it
switch to different mirrors before but not this time.
Thanks,
Yum randomly switches between mirrors to balance the mirror loads and
avoid failures. When a new update is releases it sometime for the
mirrors to pull in the packages. These updates may not be exactly in
sync with each other. Meanwhile if you check with yum, it can show that
packages are unavailable or only certain updates depending on the mirror
it connects to. A simple solution would be to wait for a while and check
again later.
There is ongoing work to implement a better mirror management
infrastructure expected to be available in the future which might
alleviate this problem.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora/MirrorManagement
regards
Rahul
