[CentOS] Yum update to 5.7 unexpected results

Wed Sep 14 23:53:56 UTC 2011
b.j. mcclure <keepertoad at bellsouth.net>

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 21:02 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> On 09/14/2011 05:38 PM, b.j. mcclure wrote:
> > I have a couple machines running 5.6 fully updated from cr repo.  When I
> > did 'yum update' this morning it found 8 updates:
> >        centos-release-5-7.el5
> >        centos-release-notes-5.7-0
> >     ghostscript 8.70-6.el5_7.3
> >     nspr 4.8.8-1.el5_7
> >     nss 3.12.10-4.el5
> >     nss-tools 3.12.10-4.el5
> >        ntp-4.2.2p1-15.el5
> >        initscripts-8.45.38-2.el5
> 
> these are all updates released in the last 2 days, I suspect you were
> just hitting a mirror machine that did not have the entire rpms/ content
> in sync as yet.
> 
> If you continue to see this issue, please open an issue report at
> bugs.centos.org and provide some details about what mirrors your machine
> is hitting ( usually, the fastest-mirror's timedhosts file is a good
> thing to check for this info )
> 
> - KB

Many thanks.  That was indeed the situation.  Sorry I panicked
prematurely. ;-/

Cheers.

B.J.

CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)
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