New Firefox vs. Up2date

[Pasha R]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:27 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> The Red Hat Network Notification Tool (KDE Applet) tells me correctly
> that there is a new version of Firefox available.  The version on the
> nachine is firefox-1.0-2.fc3.x86_64.rpm, while the latest version on the
> server is firefox-1.0.1-1.3.1.x86_64.rpm.  Nevertheless, up2date doesn't
> report the new version as available for installation.
> 
> Does anyone know why this is?  Is the new firefox worth hand
> installation?

up2date uses random mirrors to fetch updates. Probably the mirror it
chosen have not yet synced with RedHat server. Try to run it again, so
it will choose another mirror.