[plug] RH updates availability?

[Bret Busby]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Paul Dean wrote:

> 
> Hya,
> 
> Check first to see if the packages have been installed.
> Like 'rpm -qi LPRng' this is the latest package been for lprng should
> read LPRng-3.8.9-4.
> If the rpm database reports this then do 'lpq -V' for the version that
> is actually running.
> If not then the package hasn't been installed. From memory up2date stores
> the rpm's in '/var/spool/up2date' for the default config, or run 
> 'up2date-config' to find out.
> Have a look in there for your downloaded packages.
> 
> Then ftp into ftp.iinet.net.au and goto
> '/linux/redhat/updates/7.3/en/os/i386/' and compare the rpm files they
> have there to what you have in your machine.
> iiNet mirror from RedHat.
> If you don't have all the files then you can dl them from there, that's
> what I do, faster than up2date, then you can update your packages
> manually with 'rpm -Fvh *rpm' while your in the directory that you dled
> the files to.
> 
> Or you get really funky and use mirror to mirror the directories via
> crond every so often, once a day perhaps.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the reply, Phil.
> > 
> > I retried again, and, this time it told me that the system was fully
> > updated, and that "No new packages are needed".
> > 
> > A dialogue box told me that the system was currently running kernel
> > 2.4.18-3, and that a newer version was installed (2.4.18-5), and that I
> > should reboot as soon as possible, to test the newer kernel. Rebooting
> > shows the kernel as being 2.4.18-3, at the login prompt, so I do not know
> > what happened to the newer kernel that showed as having been installed.
> > 
> > I also again get the same dialogue box, that shows that the kernel that is
> > running, is older than the newest installed kernel. It must have hidden
> > the newer kernel from the bootup, or, not really installed the newer
> > packages, or something.
> > 
> > I am now confused. I do not know what up2date has done to the system.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

rpm -qi LPRng indicates release 4, install date Sat 29 June 2002.

lpq -V states " 'missingprinter at localhost' - cannot open connection - No
such file or directory".

Doing an ls on /var/spool/up2date , shows .hdr and rpm files (I assume
that .hdr = header), and, in that directory, is kernel-2.4.18-5.i586.hdr
and the same .rpm . However, the login prompt still shows the kernel as
2.4.18-3 .

I logged in as root, cd'd to the /var/spool/up2date directory, and ran the
command rpm -Fvh *rpm , then rebooted, and the login prompt still displays
kernel 2.4.18-3 , so that appears to not have worked.

Ran up2date -uiv ; that returned "There are no packages available for
update", after "Retrieving list of all available packages" and "Removing
installed packages from list of updates", so it appears that the system is
fully updated and the undated packages installed, but it still shows the
kernel as being the version before the updating, on the login screen.

The Red Hat Alert Notification Tool dialogue box still shows "Your system
is currently running kernel-2.4.18-3, but the newest installed kernel is
kernel-2.4.18-5. It is recommended that you reboot at the first
opportunity to test this new kernel." The blue tick icon in the bottom
right corner of the Xwindows screen (using GNOME), with a mouseover,
displays "No updates available (0 ignored)".

So, I am left wondering whether up2date does work, as the updated packages
show as being downloaded and installed, but not operating, even after both
cold and warm reboots.

Maybe rpm does not work in RH 7.3?

Confusion reigns.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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