From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: Maybe its just me, but the --channel option doesn't seem to work as expected for me. As far as I can tell from the docs, the only way to use it is with the -install-all option. When I do up2date --channel updates-testing package-name up2date should get package-name.rpm from the specified channel for me. Instead it downloads headers from ALL channels I have uncommented in my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources files and then it sits there for way too long doing nothing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.1.16-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.up2date --channel updates-testing package-name 2. 3. Actual Results: fetches all channels (and hangs?) Expected Results: Should only fetch specified channel and package Additional info: If my interpretation of the docs is correct, I don't see why --channel needs the --install-all option as well. If my interpretation is wrong, then it still doesn't seem to work the way I would like it to.
FYI, I'm doing all of this in a terminal with the --nox option.
up2date --install-all --channel SOMECHANNEL will install all packages from SOMECHANNEL, but, it may need to pull more packages from other channels to solve all deps. When using the yum sources, this means downloading all the headers for all the channels that are configured. As best I can from reading, this is working correctly, aside from stalling, which is probabaly a variation of #119568