[CentOS] Minor 4.4 upgrade oddity

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Thu Aug 31 15:50:00 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 08:36 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> I ran "yum upgrade" early yesterday from a remote ssh login, but upon
> looking at the set of packages I decided to wait until I could sit at
> the console to reboot.  So I declined to proceed with the upgrade when
> prompted.
> 
> Later when I ran "yum ugrade" again, it found no packages to update.
> After some poking around checking the mirrors, running "yum clean
> headers", etc., I finally tried "yum clean all" and thereafter "yum
> ugrade" worked flawlessly.
> 
> I've never seen this happen with "yum update", so I don't know why it
> would be different with "upgrade", but there you are.
> _______________________________________________

Yum has a cache for a period of time, maybe that came into play and
cleaning the metadata made everything better?


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