On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 22:30 -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:47:41 -0800, Rob <wasguru@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm running RC3 on AMD64. Once in a while I get notified of updates
> > via the rhn applet but when I run up2date it says I'm all updated. I
> > assume this is because the update is for i386 which I might also have
> > in addition to the x86_64 package. My question is should I add i386
> > repos to my rhn/sources? I was wondering what would happen if I was
> > trying to install a package later and it found the same package for 2
> > different architectures in 2 different reps; would it choose one or
> > throw an error?
>
> I don't know how well up2date works with multiple architectures, but I
> know yum can handle it. To install a 32-bit package where both are
> available, type "yum install <pkg>.i386" 32-bit repos in the yum.conf
> work just fine. I haven't used up2date since it would only work well
> for me when I happened to get a good server from the pool available.
> I found out how to work with yum before I found out how to work with
> up2date, so I have used yum and it works well.
> As far as the seemingly false update notifications, if you are using
> mirrors, perhaps you are getting the update notification before the
> packages are pushed out to the mirror. I know I have seen that. I
> have not seen (on FC2 at least) update notifications that were for
> i386 packages that I did not have installed (but rather had the 64-bit
> version installed). Are you eventually gettings updates for packages,
> or is it always telling you there are updates that you cannot get?
> Does anyone know where some good documentation on up2date is? I just
> looked quickly around the Fedora site and only found something on yum.
> Some quick Google searches didn't find anything that looked helpful
> either. Does Fedora lean towards using up2date over yum, since the
> notifier specifically uses up2date?
>
> Jonathan
>
I've found when that happens I use the command line up2date -u and it
will give you the error message. If you don't get the update you just
need to hit the up arrow key and enter to try again with a new mirror.
Tim...
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