On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 19:26 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Quicksort wrote:
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> Platform: *Fedora 17 x64*
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>
> Hello everybody,
>
> Usually, updates frequency is high. But for about one week, none.
>
> How can I check my installed YUM (refresh-packagekit ?) still
> correctly does its work ? And what should I do if it does not ?
>
I have cron run "yum -y --downloadonly upgrade" daily, and I have the option to
keep packages set in yum.conf. At a civilized hour I check the mail and see
what's to be updated, and apply some or all of the packages.
To check that things are working, just "yum check-update" can be run manually,
it typically will download some metadata and present a list of what needs
update, if anything. It's relatively fast, and will give you that "warm fuzzy
feeling" that everything is ok, or tell you for certain that it's not.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
I was about to comment that one could also do "yum -assumeno update",
until I tried it. Currently, "yum check-update" is giving an error:
$ yum check-update
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit, security
google/primary
| 1.4 kB 00:00:00
http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata
file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from google: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata
file does not match checksum
whereas "yum -assumeno update" gives me a list of packages to update,
and no error.
This violates the Principle of Least Astonishment, or is it a bug?
poc