From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.12; Mac_PowerPC) Description of problem: Up2date works perfectly in this environment, but whenever it is run from the command-line as "up2date -u -v", it lists all current packages that have been installed by it as if they were being downloaded. It, in fact, does not re-download them, nor does it reinstall them. And it downloads new packages and installs them correctly. This is more of a cosmetic/confusion problem than an actual functional error, but it must be symptomatic of a deeper error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. up2date -u -v Additional info:
I'm not sure I understand what is going on. tell me if this sounds like an accurate restatement of the issue: 1. You run up2date, download, and install some updates. 2. You run `up2date -u -v` again, it looks to be redownloading the packages you already updated? One thing is that for packages that are decided it needs to skip (kernel by default, or packages with config changes that cant reliably be updated) it will show the list of packages skipped, and with "-v" also show you the errata advisory information for them. Could this be whats going on?
Steps 1 and 2 you note are what's going on, but it lists every already- downloaded package, and it takes some time to process them even though they are ostensibly already installed. When it hits netscape- common, it takes 5 to 10 seconds to get through it. I don't think it's actually running rpm again (although I can't quite tell - I could monitor if that's useful). But it's definitely running through the entire list of updates as if it hadn't installed any of them. I can check /var/spool/up2date and all the RPMs are there. I can check the locations and versions, and the new files are installed. As I say, cosmetic, but time consuming and confusing. I have the kernel update exclusion off, and was able to use up2date to install the latest kernel.
dcook, can you try to duplicate this? I'm not having much luck.
Now I feel like an idiot. I finally managed to get gnome running on this system and ran the gnome version of up2date which offers substantially more feedback than the -v flag of up2date from the command line. At some point in the past, I'd set up2date to download only. The gnome up2date provided that feedback textually - hey, go to up2date-config to change this option - which I did and all is well. You might consider adding that brief banner for us idiots to the command- line version. Thanks!