Re: Enigma: yum check-update doesn\\\'t show all rpms in a repository

From: Dennis Shaw (dennis_at_dragondeveloper.com)
Date: 01/21/05

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To: pmconway@softhome.net, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    pmconway wrote:

    >Thanks a lot for your replies, Dennis. Yum list | grep alsa returned this:
    >________________
    > alsa-lib.i386 1.0.6-5 installed
    > alsa-utils.i386 1.0.6-3 installed
    > alsa-lib-debuginfo.i386 1.0.6-5 updates-released
    > alsa-lib-devel.i386
    >________________
    >
    >Is alsa-lib-1.0.6-7.FC3.i386.rpm not considered an update to alsa-lib.i386 1.0.6-5?
    >
    >Maybe a simpler case: yum says
    >_________________
    >gpdf.i386 2.8.2-1.2 installed
    >_________________
    >
    >but when I do a yum check-update using the same repo above, yum doesn't return an available gpdf rpm - though Firefox, pointed to http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/updates/3/i386/, shows that gpdf-2.8.2-2.2.i386.rpm is available.
    >
    >I'm really confused. Thanks a lot for helping.
    >
    >Trish
    >
    >
    >
    >
    No, it's not recognizing them as updates because the filenames aren't
    following the same naming convention. In the simpler example, if the
    newer file was named gpdf.i386-2.8.2-2.2.rpm, it would recognize it.
    Notice the placement of the i386.

    Dennis 

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