I'm running CentOS 4.2 and my CentOS Network Alert Notification Tool has been "red" for over a week now. It's telling me that there is one package available for update, namely shadow-utils-4.0.3-58. However, a "yum update" tells me there are no updates available. I've checked a few of the mirrors and they only appear to have shadow-utils-4.0.3-53. At first I thought the mirrors may be a little behind, but it's been over a week, so I think something else is going on. Anyone else seen this?
Alfred
On 12/4/05, Alfred von Campe alfred@110.net wrote:
I'm running CentOS 4.2 and my CentOS Network Alert Notification Tool has been "red" for over a week now. It's telling me that there is one package available for update, namely shadow-utils-4.0.3-58. However, a "yum update" tells me there are no updates available. I've checked a few of the mirrors and they only appear to have shadow-utils-4.0.3-53. At first I thought the mirrors may be a little behind, but it's been over a week, so I think something else is going on. Anyone else seen this?
Current shadow-utils is indeed at 4.0.3-58. The mirrors I've checked all have the updated version in the updates directory. Where have you been looking, are you behind a caching proxy, etc?
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
Current shadow-utils is indeed at 4.0.3-58. The mirrors I've checked all have the updated version in the updates directory. Where have you been looking, are you behind a caching proxy, etc?
I keep a local CentOS repository by using rsync from the Georgia Tech server. I also manually checked the ftp servers at Washington University in St. Louis and JTL Networks. All three only have shadow-utils-4.0.3-53 in .../4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS. What am I missing? Or did I just happen to pick three bad mirrors?
Alfred
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 20:55 -0500, Alfred von Campe wrote:
Current shadow-utils is indeed at 4.0.3-58. The mirrors I've checked all have the updated version in the updates directory. Where have you been looking, are you behind a caching proxy, etc?
I keep a local CentOS repository by using rsync from the Georgia Tech server. I also manually checked the ftp servers at Washington University in St. Louis and JTL Networks. All three only have shadow-utils-4.0.3-53 in .../4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS. What am I missing? Or did I just happen to pick three bad mirrors?
---- you need to pick up the 'updates' directory
http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/
Craig
you need to pick up the 'updates' directory
Ah, that makes sense. The only reason I looked in the os directory on the ftp servers was that when I did a "find /my/path/to/centos -name shadow*" it was the only directory that contained the shadow-utils RPM. I can see that there is a newer version of this RPM in the mirrors. So the question becomes, why isn't my rsync picking up this file? It's picked up every other file in the updates directory except for that one. According to the logs, my rsync ran last night. Here is the command I run from cron:
rsync --archive --delete --partial --progress --stats --verbose \ --exclude="SRPMS" --exclude="alpha" --exclude="ia64" --exclude="ppc" \ --exclude="s390*" --exclude="x86_64" --exclude="isos" \ rsync://rsync.gtlib.gatech.edu/centos/4 /my/path/to/centos
I think I just found the problem. I need to rsync the 4.2 directory. I think I made this change a couple of weeks ago (from 4.2 to 4), but I don't remember why. I've changed it back to 4.2, and it's rsync'ing a whole bunch of files now.
Alfred
On 12/4/05, Alfred von Campe alfred@110.net wrote:
Current shadow-utils is indeed at 4.0.3-58. The mirrors I've checked all have the updated version in the updates directory. Where have you been looking, are you behind a caching proxy, etc?
I keep a local CentOS repository by using rsync from the Georgia Tech server. I also manually checked the ftp servers at Washington University in St. Louis and JTL Networks. All three only have shadow-utils-4.0.3-53 in .../4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS. What am I missing? Or did I just happen to pick three bad mirrors?
That's the base repository. If you're hosting a local mirror you might consider rsyncing the updates directory as well. .../4/updates/i386/
The base repository won't change until there's a new point release (4.3), and you should probably use /4/ instead of /4.2/ to ensure that you get the point release updates when they're released.
Also, the alert tool you're referring to uses sources listed in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources, not the usual yum configs in /etc/yum.repos.d/
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
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