On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 10:23 -0800, 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, > > -- > Knute Johnson > Molon Labe... > > > Knute, It takes time for the mirrors to update. Running yum multiple times will likely pick different mirrors each time and may find different updates available. Bob...
