[CentOS] yum update success+failure

Wed Oct 1 15:02:45 UTC 2014
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

On Tue, September 30, 2014 10:07, ken wrote:
> Just doing "yum update" on two machines (and only two), both centos
> 5.10, one of them updated something like 22 packages, the other just 4.
>   Packages which were updated on the first, but didn't get updated on
> the second machine include: gcc, httpd, kernel-2.6.18-398.el5, and
> probably a couple more.  Trying the update on the second machine again
> (a few times), it always ends, "No Packages marked for Update".
>
> So now the first has:
>
> gcc-4.1.2-55.el5
> httpd-2.2.3-91.el5.centos
> kernel-2.6.18-371.12.1.el5.centos.plus
>
> while the second has:
>
> gcc-4.1.2-54.el5
> httpd-2.2.3-87.el5.centos
> kernel-2.6.18-371.11.1.el5
>
> WTH???

Try this:

yum clean all ; yum update -y




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