F8 yum updates failing

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Dec 17 06:23:23 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 15:34 +0000, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
>         Actually, my standard routine is to do "yum clean all," then
> "rpm --rebuilddb," then "updatedb," and only then "yum update" each
> time.

The first two of those steps would be for when you're recovering from a
big stuff-up, rather than being a normal way to manage updates.
Updatedb has nothing to do with package installations.

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