up2date not working on FC3

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 11 04:23:39 UTC 2004


Mike Noble wrote:

> I have the icon showing that I need to update the system.  When
> I launch up2date, it shows a list of files that have updates.
> example:
> openoffice.org-kde-1.1.2-10 openoffice.org.kde-1.1.2-11.5.fc3
> but up2date says the system is up to date.
> Yet the icon still says that I need to update and if I look at
> rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org-kde
> openoffice.org-kde-1.1.2-10
> Does anybody know what is going on here?
>
> Mike
>
As up2date executes sequential stages, it sometimes switches mirrors.  
One mirror has the current updates available but another hasn't caught 
up yet.  Try several times in succession and you will probably get one 
that has the updates and can complete the install - or wait a day.

Gerry




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