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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++