Am Sonntag, den 22.01.2006, 16:31 -0800 schrieb jdow: > >>> Each time I ran 'yum update' I > >>> would get responses very similar to this: > >>> > >>> [...] > >>> Reading repository metadata in from local files > >>> primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 969 kB > >>> 00:34 > >>> extras : ################################################## 2815/2815 > >>> Added 15 new packages, deleted 12 old in 3.45 seconds > >>> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion > > Observe that above. If there are only 15 new packages and 12 deleted > packages something is doing updates behind your back. Please check it > out rather than "presume" she needs an update. > > >>> I know she needs an openoffice update. I don't think yum is running > >>> nightly, but I didn't check for that either, so I could be wrong. See the output of: % /sbin/service yum status (e.g.) "Nightly yum update is enabled." You might want to instruct your mother-in-law to do that for *you*. > >> > >> > >> How do you know it is needed? Is it possible she's already updated via > >> a cron job? What does "rpm -q openoffice.org-core" return? It returns > >> "openoffice.org.core-2.0.1.1-5.1" here. And this is from a VERY recent > >> update, in the day or so. > >> Applied updates are: o logged to /var/log/yum.log by default o listed in logwatch-report % rpm -qa --last | head # Shows the last # installed/upgraded packages with full name. > I'm not sure of this but I believe the default install involves a cron > job for yum updates. It would make perfect sense, though the RELEASE NOTES don't mention this and i can't remember for sure. Thomas
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