Re: yum updates and FC 6/7
Brian Long <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 11:17 -0500, Dave Frazier wrote:
> Just want to confirm my understanding of a couple of points ...
>
> I have an FC 6 instance where yum update no longer runs. I'm assuming
> that this is because FC 6 is now de-supported.
Correct.
> My FC 7 instance is running as a web server and so is always on. It
> seems as if I have to reboot the box to re-initiate the yum update
> cycle. Am I missing something here?
Why would you have to reboot? Do you get an error message when you run
"yum update"? In some cases, yum-updatesd might have a lock in place
which makes yum update fail. You can either wait for it to give up the
lock or turn off yum-updatesd and run "yum update".
/Brian/
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