Daniel,

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Daniel Widyono wrote:

> Sorry if this is too obvious.  I'm using the default setup for yum in
> SL3.0.3.  I'm getting regular updates installed automatically via the cron
> job (getting e-mails about CUPS update, for instance).  However, yum list
> updates showed a large list of not-up-to-date RPM's.  Why would there be a
> discrepancy?  Shouldn't automatic yumming have brought all of them up to date
> already?
>
> yum.conf and yum.cron.primary both point to ftp.scientificlinux.org/...

Can you sent the output from a

yum list updates

Note that there are a few rpms that the auto cron yum does not do.  These
are all kernel related.

-Connie Sieh
>
> Thanks for the gentle pointers, :)
> Dan W.
> New-to-yum
>
>
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