Todd,

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Todd Blake wrote:

> Should I be using yum or up2date to update my SL 4.0 systems?  I saw that errata 
> were no available for SL 4.0 and issued a "yum update" and it tells me nothing 
> is in need of updating, but "up2date -l" tells me of three packages we have 
> installed that need it.  Any ideas/tips/hints?  I pasted below the output from 
> "up2date -l" and "yum update".

The SL.releasenote specifically says to NOT use up2date but to use yum.

> 
> root@radon# yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repos
> sl-base                   100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> sl-errata                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> sl-base   : ################################################## 1447/1447
> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
> 

will research.  Note that there issues with the "server" last night which 
may be related to this issue.

> 
> root@radon# up2date -l
> 
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: scientific-base...
> 
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: scientific-errata...
> 
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
> 
> Name                                    Version        Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> cvs                                     1.11.17        7.RHEL4           i386
> devhelp                                 0.9.2          2.4.4             i386
> mozilla-nspr                            1.7.7          1.4.2             i
> 

We  only made this to work for the case were up2date got turned on by 
default to handle the "automatic" update.  We did not want it trying to 
contact redhat.

-Connie Sieh