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