On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The Red Hat Network Notification Tool (KDE Applet) tells me correctly > that there is a new version of Firefox available. The version on the > nachine is firefox-1.0-2.fc3.x86_64.rpm, while the latest version on the > server is firefox-1.0.1-1.3.1.x86_64.rpm. Nevertheless, up2date doesn't > report the new version as available for installation. > > Does anyone know why this is? Is the new firefox worth hand > installation? This is the issue with 'mirror-list' - i.e all mirrors don't have the same files at any given instant. And when up2date or yum is configured with a 'mirrorlist' - at each invocation - it potentially checks a different mirror - hence the info can be inconsistant. Your alternatives are: - wait a few hours so that most mirrors get this update - try running up2date a few times - and hope one of these attempts gets to a more recent mirror - Modify your mirrorlist to a better one (so that you don't go to the opposite end of the globe) - for eg: I use http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever.us.east - Do not use mirrorlist - and just use a favourite mirror closeby. This way up2date is ALWAYS consistant across multiple invocations. BTW: the mirrorlist setting for up2date can be changed by editing /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources as in: yum-mirror updates-released-fc3 http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3.us.east You can check http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/ for a complete mirror-list for up2date Satish
