I found out what up2date was doing when checking for dependencies. After downloading the headers for the packages my system needs, I would select the packages I want to update and click forward. While up2date is in the checking dependencies step it is downloading header files for every package in existance. It is acting like it wants to download all the package header files for the complete Fedora distribution. There are even header files of packages I've never heard of. Do you know of anyone else having this type of problem? When I try yum it wil get stuck on a header file download. It is never the same file. Most of the time though it is on a kernel header. It also thinks I should have an smp kernel when I don't have smp on my system, I have an AMD Athlon XP 2500+. On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 12:31, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 15.08.2004 schrieb Stanley Davis um 14:54: > > > I have had up2date hang when checking dependencies. I have even gone as > > far as clearing the /var/spool/up2date folder. Because of this I've > > been installing updates manually. The last thing installed using > > up2date was the kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2. I do not know much about yum is > > that different than up2date or do they work together? If it is a > > different method for getting updates can you direct me to how I can find > > how to use it. Otherwise is there a way to do the update manually? > > What means "up2date hang when checking dependencies"? Did it complain > about unresolvable dependencies regarding the package split with PHP? > > yum works internally a bit different than up2date as it has different > code. > > "man yum" shows you how to use yum. > > I don't recommend upgrading manually, but if you like it is i.e. > > rpm -Uvh http://mirror.server.of.choice/path/updates/package1 > http://mirror.server.of.choice/path/updates/package2 > > Alexander >
