Re: [CentOS] What is wrong with yum?

2008-04-20 Thread Johnny Hughes

Olaf Mueller wrote:

Hello,

in my CentOS-Base.repo file there is a line
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch
and yum update said 'nothing to do'. Then I change this line to
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/updates/i386 and yum
updates firefox, squid, sos and so on. That happens on two of my
computers, reproducible.

Does yum sometimes forget it's release version?



Changing to 5.1 instead of 5 (which is the default) will result in not 
getting updates when we move to 5.2.


The fact that is says nothing to do can be caused by cached metadata 
(and shifting from $releasever to 5.1 will cause that to download over 
again).


yum clean metadata

 then

yum upgrade

might be better to try.

Also PLEASE REMEMBER ... $releasever is not 5.1 or 5.2 .. it is 5.





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Re: [CentOS] What is wrong with yum?

2008-04-19 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Olaf Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Does yum sometimes forget it's release version?

It shouldn't, unless the distroverpkg definition in /etc/yum.conf is
wrong, or the package that distroverpkg references is out of date.

What do you have listed there, and what's the output of rpm -q
whatever-package-it-is ?

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Re: [CentOS] What is wrong with yum?

2008-04-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Olaf Mueller wrote on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:14:35 +0200:

 Does yum sometimes forget it's release version?

what is the version string in your centos-release file?

Kai

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Re: [CentOS] What is wrong with yum?

2008-04-19 Thread Olaf Mueller
Kai Schaetzl wrote:

Hello,

 Olaf Mueller wrote on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:14:35 +0200:

 Does yum sometimes forget it's release version?
 what is the version string in your centos-release file?
there is only an redhat-release file under /etc/.

# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5 (Final)


regards
Olaf

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Re: [CentOS] What is wrong with yum?

2008-04-19 Thread Olaf Mueller
Jim Perrin wrote:

Hello,

 On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Olaf Mueller
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Does yum sometimes forget it's release version?
 
 It shouldn't, unless the distroverpkg definition in /etc/yum.conf is
 wrong, or the package that distroverpkg references is out of date.
 
 What do you have listed there, and what's the output of rpm -q
 whatever-package-it-is ?
in /etc/yum.conf there is 'distroverpkg=redhat-release' listed.

# rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release
centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1

Everything seems to me ok so far. Maybe this is a problem with my squid
server? I will test this.


regards
Olaf

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