On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:01:33PM +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 05 January 2012 06:17:17 John Doe wrote: > > # yum update > > ... ... > > Running Transaction Test > > Transaction Test Succeeded > > Running Transaction > > Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum. ... > > How come a simple update of a a single package from CentOS update > > would "alter RPMDB outside of yum"...? > > The warning is generated by yum, saying that its own database of installed > packages does not match the rpm database. This basically means that sometime > back you have used rpm directly to install/remove some package, circumventing > yum. You are not supposed to install rpm packages behind yum's back. :-) you can but then you need to resync yum and rpm databases: [tru at centos6 ~]$ yum history sync will "fix" your warnings Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120106/ec8c75a0/attachment-0005.sig>