Really strange up2date behavior

From: Matthew Saltzman (mjs_at_ces.clemson.edu)
Date: 12/14/04

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    Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:14:31 -0500 (EST)
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    I have several identically configured (more or less) FC3 machines. On
    most of them, "up2date <pkgname>" works as expected for original and
    updated packages. But on one machine, if <pkgname> is the name of
    a package in the original distribution that hasn't been updated, "up2date
    <pkgname>" reports that the package cannot be found.

    This doesn't appear to have to do with mirrors, it has to do with the
    particular machine. Multiple attempts on the different machines do rotate
    through the mirrors but the results are consistent on each machine I try.

    /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources is identical on all machines.

    Any idea where I should look for other differences that might cause this
    inconsist behavior?

    TIA.

    On the odd machine (note the status "not found"):

            # up2date emacs
            http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-3
            using mirror:
            http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os
            http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3
            using mirror:
            http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/

            Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-3...

            Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released-fc3...

            Fetching rpm headers...

            Name Version Rel
            ----------------------------------------------------------

            The following packages you requested were not found:
            emacs

    On the other machines (note the status "already updated":

            # up2date emacs
            http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-3
            using mirror:
            http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/
            http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3
            using mirror:
            http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/

            Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-3...

            Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released-fc3...

            Fetching rpm headers...

            Name Version Rel
            ----------------------------------------------------------

            The following packages you requested are already updated:
            emacs 

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		Matthew Saltzman
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