Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 170169
up2date refuses to install pdksh, claiming it is already updated
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:08 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Hello, up2date refuses to install pdksh under both AS 3 and AS 4, claiming that it is installed already. RPM disagrees, claiming that it is not installed, and a survey of the machine indicates that there is no /bin/ksh. An example: $ rpm -q pdksh package pdksh is not installed $ sudo up2date pdksh Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3-extras... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-3-as-i386-rhds-2... ######################################## Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- pdksh 5.2.14 21 i386 Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... ######################################## The following packages you requested are already updated: pdksh Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.4.44-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. "rpm -q pdksh" to determine that it isn't installed, or "rpm --erase pdksh" 2. "up2date pdksh" 3. Actual Results: Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3-extras... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-3-as-i386-rhds-2... ######################################## Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- pdksh 5.2.14 21 i386 Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... ######################################## The following packages you requested are already updated: pdksh Expected Results: It should have installed pdksh for me. Additional info:
An "up2date -p" does not correct the problem, either. Tried that today.
Folks, It appears that this is related to our Satellite server installation. All of our hosts update from the Satellite, whereas the Satellite updates from the true RHN. As a consequence the Satellite server's up2date can retrieve and install pdksh, whereas the other hosts cannot. We are running Satellite 3.7.1. I just discovered all of this. I am going to close this for right now, since it does not appear to be truly an up2date problem. I have opened a support case with Red Hat Technical Support about this. Sorry about that.