[WBEL-users] Problem with up2date

Michael St. Laurent mikes@hartwellcorp.com
Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:32:29 -0800


William Hooper <> wrote:
> Please send replies to the list.

Sorry, I just hit the Reply button.

>> It downloaded the headers then sat for more than an hour at the
>>  resolving dependencies screen.  This is on a 2GHz machine that
>> wasn't doing anything else.
> 
> It's been a while since I've use the GUI, but I believe up2date will
> download additional headers while resolving dependencies (I haven't
> looked to see if the first run is just the headers.info).  I haven't
> really taken the time to track it down, but on every machine I've
> used up2date with a yum repo, it will at some point it will download
> every header in the repo. 
> 
> Again, I suggest using strace against the process to see what is
>  going on. If it is updating headers you should be able to see the
> http requests. 

Okay, I'll try that.

For the record, it did the same thing with the TUI version.

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Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation