On Tuesday 12 July 2005 2:45 am, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 01:12 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > > Tonight, even though I do yum updates several times a week, I came up > > with a list of 633 updates available. How could this be? I did an rpm > > rebuilddb and I run yum clean all, but I still get this huge list. I > > can't believe so many packages have new updates in the past 48 hours, or > > less. My repos are the standard Fedora including extras and development, > > Livna, and KDE-Redhat. > > Check out a sample of what it's saying needs updating. > > Do "yum check-update" to get a list of the packages that need updating. > > For some of those packages, do "rpm -q packagename" to see which version > you have installed. Compare that with what yum is suggesting to install. > Is the version yum is suggesting later? > > Which repositories are the majority of the updates from? Have you > enabled a development repo by mistake? > > Paul. > -- Thanks, Paul. I 'do' intend to do that. The problem occurred very late last night when I was dealing with several issues at once, so I didn't get around to this step - but, I have learned enough to know to do that <g>, and, to not let the updates proceed. I shall investigate this when I get home. I remember this occurring with FC3 several months back, and the problem went away on its own, so I was holding off the heavy diagnostics due to the hour. I posted just to see if there was anything about yesterday's activities in the FC4 world that could be causing this, external to my situation. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
