Does this mean that during the Dependency checking I just have to be patient and wait for it to download several hundred or so header files before it actually does the dependency check? On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 11:35, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 21.08.2004 schrieb Stanley Davis um 13:38: > > > 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? > > That is how yum repositories work, either accessed with up2date or yum. > > > 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+. > > No, this is no SMP system. You should not have an SMP kernel, though it > would not do any or big harm running one on a single CPU system. > > Alexander >
