Re: Mystery of yum update

[Timothy Murphy]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:

> > I am running Fedora-9 on two Thinkpads, a T23 and a T43.
> > When I ran "yum update" on both this morning,
> > the T43 updated the kernel to kernel-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.rpm
> > while the T23 did not update kernel-2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686.rpm .
> > 
> > Why didn't the T23 update?
> > Is it just a question of the machines finding different repositories?
> > This seems puzzling, as 2.6.26 had been out for some time, I think.
> > 
>  
>  Latest kernel would be kernel-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686.rpm
>  
>  Does the T23 have the newkey repositories? 
I just checked, and the newkey repositories are there, 
in /etc/yum.repos.d .
Amazingly, I then ran "yum update" again,
and it is now downloading 600MB.
Nothing else has changed, so it must just be the luck of repository.



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