up2date hang on dependency test

[Will Backman]

Looking at /var/spool/up2date shows an incredible number of header
files.  Yikes!  All kinds at archs.

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:06, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:47:33PM -0400, Will Backman wrote:
>  > Upgrade from RedHat9 to Fedora Core, test 3.
>  > Downloaded latest up2date from rawhide, rpm -Fvh up2date*.rpm
>  > up2date -u --nosig sits there for a very very long time on testing
>  > package set/solving RPM inter-dependencies. (like an hour...)  I get
>  > tired of waiting and ctl+c it.
>  > I even ran rpm --rebuilddb and tried again.
>  > Anyone else getting this?
> 
> Yes. I've been seeing it off and on for a few weeks.
> Did an FCt3 install earlier this afternoon.
> First thing I did after booting was up2date -fu, and its still
> sitting there doing its thing nearly two hours later.
> 
> strace on the up2date process shows its up to all sorts of things,
> including stat() of .hdr files for s390/ppc/x86_64 and other archs
> that are irrelevant to this box (i386).
> 
> 		Dave