On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:53:34 -0500, mwood77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mwood77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Dave <fedora-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Newest problem ... since several have suggested updating my system > > would solve > > some issues, I tried it. "yum update" goes through, identifies all > > the > > packages that need updating (I assume--I didn't go through and > > manually > > verify), downloads all the packages (verified they're > > in /var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages), and then happily exits. > > But did > > it update anything? Nope. "yum check-updates" still lists everything > > that > > needed updating. > > > > Am I supposed to manually go into the directory and run "rpm -Uvh *"? > > I > > thought yum was supposed to handle all that? > > > > Interesting. I would tend to clear out the > /var/cache/yum/updates-released area and try just updating yum itself > first. I beleive this can be done by executing "yum update yum". Who > knows... maybe yum needs an update to work? > > Good luck! > > MWood > It's a bug in yum. I've had this happen many times to me. Yum goes off to check dependencies and then exits. Just run 'yum update' again and everything will install. -- Kam Leo
