On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:17:42PM -0500, Kevin Hanser wrote: .... > The following is a list of outdated packages on your system: > > Name Version Release > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----- > bash 2.05b 34 > kernel 2.4.22 1.2135.nptl > kernel 2.4.22 1.2138.nptl > > It seemed a little strange to me that it's telling me that there's 2 > kernels that are the latest release... Obviously, I'm going to go ahead > and d/l and install the 2138 kernel, but I thought this behaviour was a > little odd, and you might want to know. I have seen this as well and I believe it is because I download both source and binary. So, check for kernel and kernel source rpms. $ rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.101.fedora kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl kernel-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl The source may be uninstalled but downloaded because of a flag in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date retrieveSource[comment]=Retrieve source RPM along with binary package retrieveSource=1 I noted that the rpms have names that look like: /var/spool/up2date/kernel-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl.athlon.rpm /var/spool/up2date/kernel-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl.src.rpm So in my case the RPMs have the same name module athlon/src and I suspect that the parser in up2date does not make the difference clear. -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
