[WBEL-users] updates since respin-1?

[Paul Pianta]

Rex Dieter wrote:

> Mário Gamito wrote:
>
>> I believe that when you install a fresh machine you must first run 
>> "yum check-update" to retrieve the headers first, and only after "yum 
>> update".
>
>
> AFAIK, your belief is incorrect.
> yum update
> should run just fine (and find updates, if available), whether it's 
> the "first run" or not. 

Yeah Rex you're right. Each time yum is run it will download the latest 
headers and then go from there. BUT apt-get works like Mario explained - 
ie. you need to do an 'apt-get update' before running 'apt-get update'.

Anyhoo - After my problem with the repositories yesterday - I have 
another problem today. Yesterday when I did a 'yum update' I got nothing 
back, and then later in the day I did 'yum update' and got a huge list 
of updates that I went ahead and installed. I put it down to some out of 
sync mirror that I probably happened to 'failover' onto in the default 
yum.conf.

Today I wanted to 'yum install php-mysql' and I got the following 
dependency error ...
--- snip ---
Resolving dependencies
....Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package php-mysql needs php = 4.3.2-11.ent, this is not available.
--- snip ---

Running 'rpm -q php' gave me php-4.3.2-14.ent.i386.rpm

Does anyone have any idea where the php-4.3.2-14.ent package came from? 
I manually checked the phantom hosting wbel mirror and there is no '-14' 
package there - just '-11'.

Could it be another 'mirrors out of sync' problem? If so - maybe we 
should investigate further because out of sync mirrors are no longer 
'mirrors' - they are just dull reflections that can cause annoying 
problems ...

pantz

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