[WBEL-users] Problem with up2date

[Michael St. Laurent]

Ahhh, I hadn't tried that.  I'll give that a whirl next.

Thanks!  ;-D

Shapiro, Mark <> wrote:
> I've also noticed that when up2date finds a large number of packages
> to update, that it hangs at the resolving dependencies stage.  I have
> been able to work around this by downloading the packages in groups
> of 10 or 
> 20.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
> [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of William Hooper
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 1:45 PM
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: RE: [WBEL-users] Problem with up2date
> 
> Please send replies to the list.
> 
> Michael St. Laurent said:
> 
>> 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. 



-- 
Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation