On 09/30/2014 12:00 PM Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Tue, September 30, 2014 9:07 am, 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??? > > Quite likely they just hit two different mirrors, one mirror is probably > already fully in sync with master, the other is not. As it was already > mentioned on this list, with big release (5.11 it is this time) it takes > time for all mirrors to synchronize. > > Valeri That must have been it. I just tried again and the second machine had 41 packages updated, including those mentioned above. For the record, no other yum commands were required. I just needed to re-run the same old "yum update". Thanks to all for the kind counsel, ken