Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 125625
yum has packages to update, but returns after doing little
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:49:53 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040522 Galeon/1.3.15 Description of problem: Here is the output from yum: [root@ns2 ~]$ yum -y update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Testing Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates Server: Mesh Linux / server for Fedora Core 2 Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies Dependencies resolved I will do the following: Downloading Packages Running test transaction: Test transaction complete, Success! Transaction(s) Complete [root@ns2 ~]$ I know it should at the very least by updating the kernel package if not other packages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.0.7-1.2.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum -y update 2. 3. Actual Results: No packages downloaded and installed Expected Results: Packages downloaded and installed Additional info: It isn't an offical yum package, but then I just rebuilt it to add a custom yum.conf. I also use this package on many other systems running FC2 without a problem. I have tried looking at the rpm database and rebuilding it, with no luck.
I have also tried rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* without results.
Check your configurqation. If you are looking at an older or empty repo, you will see the behavior above. Try adding -d 5 and examine the debugging spew to see what is happening.
I figured out the problem. Not sure it if is a rpm bug, yum bug, or both. The two systems I found with the problem were at one time i586 systems. After install I moved the hard drives to better hardware. They became i686 systems. When I commented out exactarch=1 in yum.conf it started to work, but instead of downloading a i686 kernel rpm it started to download a i586 kernel rpm. I stopped it and checked both the kernel package that was installed and /proc/cpuinfo. Both reported i686. So then I did a grep -r i586 /etc and found /etc/rpm/platform with i586-redhat-linux instead of i686-redhat-linux. I changed the file to i686-redhat-linux, and now yum works with exactarch=1.
Created attachment 101017 [details] yum -d 6 -y update output
Hmmm, it's hard for an application to figger when the arch changes because the disk moved, most apps lack inertial sensors ;-) Yes, /etc/rpm/platform needs change, as that sets the arch for the platform. Usually anaconda writes that file ...
ok so I figured out why it's saying this. yum is going through the deps, realizing there is nothing, with exactarch=1 set, that it can do with the available packages and available system (in short changing archs w/o completely changing archs confused the hell out of it :), and it should be exiting, but it's not it's saying, do whatever is left, but there is nothing left to do. :) I've checked a fix into yum cvs to address this.