Re: Yum?

["Jon D. Slater" <Jon.Slater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you're using the "rotating server" option, it could be that the first 
server you tried hadn't been updated yet.

I noticed from the release notes, the new kernel just came out 
yesterday, and may not have propagated.

Jon

Knute Johnson wrote:

> Yesterday I ran yum update on my laptop and got the new kernel and a 
> couple of other packages.  Everything worked just fine.  Then I ran 
> yum update on my desktop and the first time I ran it there were no 
> updates.  I thought that was odd because there were for the laptop 
> and they have similar FC4 installations.  So I ran it again and there 
> were a couple of packages but not the kernel.  So I ran it one more 
> time and the new kernel showed up.  Is this normal behavior?  Any 
> ideas why it would take three tries to make yum get all of the 
> packages?  There were no errors reported at any time.  I have had it 
> switch to different mirrors before but not this time.
>
> Thanks,
>
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