Hello,
in my CentOS-Base.repo file there is a line baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch and yum update said 'nothing to do'. Then I change this line to baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/updates/i386 and yum updates firefox, squid, sos and so on. That happens on two of my computers, reproducible.
Does yum sometimes forget it's release version?
regards Olaf
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Olaf Mueller daily-planet@istari.de wrote:
Does yum sometimes forget it's release version?
It shouldn't, unless the distroverpkg definition in /etc/yum.conf is wrong, or the package that distroverpkg references is out of date.
What do you have listed there, and what's the output of rpm -q whatever-package-it-is ?
Jim Perrin wrote:
Hello,
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Olaf Mueller daily-planet@istari.de wrote:
Does yum sometimes forget it's release version?
It shouldn't, unless the distroverpkg definition in /etc/yum.conf is wrong, or the package that distroverpkg references is out of date.
What do you have listed there, and what's the output of rpm -q whatever-package-it-is ?
in /etc/yum.conf there is 'distroverpkg=redhat-release' listed.
# rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1
Everything seems to me ok so far. Maybe this is a problem with my squid server? I will test this.
regards Olaf
Olaf Mueller wrote on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:14:35 +0200:
Does yum sometimes forget it's release version?
what is the version string in your centos-release file?
Kai
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Hello,
Olaf Mueller wrote on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:14:35 +0200:
Does yum sometimes forget it's release version?
what is the version string in your centos-release file?
there is only an redhat-release file under /etc/.
# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5 (Final)
regards Olaf
Olaf Mueller wrote:
Hello,
in my CentOS-Base.repo file there is a line baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch and yum update said 'nothing to do'. Then I change this line to baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/updates/i386 and yum updates firefox, squid, sos and so on. That happens on two of my computers, reproducible.
Does yum sometimes forget it's release version?
Changing to 5.1 instead of 5 (which is the default) will result in not getting updates when we move to 5.2.
The fact that is says nothing to do can be caused by cached metadata (and shifting from $releasever to 5.1 will cause that to download over again).
yum clean metadata
then
yum upgrade
might be better to try.
Also PLEASE REMEMBER ... $releasever is not 5.1 or 5.2 .. it is 5.
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