Re: RedHat update of up2date.

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 17:41, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> 
> BTW, I'm having another weird problem. Some of my machines had Red Hat
> 7.1 preloaded by Dell. They were later upgraded to 7.3. On these
> machines, there's a weird problem involving the zebra and gated
> packages. Namely, if gated is installed, up2date will uninstall gated
> and install zebra, then the next run will uninstall zebra and install
> gated, and the cycle repeats. (This is with up2date 2.8.) The machines
> in question really don't need either package, but I thought I'd report
> this problem anyway. (FWIW, the exact package versions are zebra-0.92a-3
> and gated-3.6-14.)

I just noticed this on a 7.3 box as well.  It actually had both
installed, and running up2date -l would show each as being superceded by
the other.  I didn't need them either, so I just uninstalled them.  This
is an old emachines box that has had at least 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 on it.

Woogie