From Bugzilla Helper: vancod instead of potatoes! User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 ({not very}compatible; M$IE 5.5; Windoze NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: On a freshly installed 7.3 system, running "up2date -fu" (or "up2date -nox -fu" which I was told is overly verbose) for the very first time does NOT update packages marked as skip. It does list packages marked as skipped by the configuration (as though -f were ignored). Running the same command (i.e. hitting hte up arrow and enter) does, in fact, force update on (all) the packages as expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Load tasty fresh Red Hat 7.3 2.Run "up2date -fu" and watch for the skippage 3.Re-run "up2date -fu" and see those skipped in #2 get installed Actual Results: System was updated and happy; user was puzzled but now enlightened by Bugzilla Expected Results: I would imagine that it should have forced update the first time I asked. Additional info: None, but thaks for asking. If it matters, I verified this on: Abit VP-6 with Dual PIII-800s Compaq Proliant DL320 IBM Netfinity 7000 M10 with single CPU Some generic PII-350 under a desk around here
erk. bizzare. Looking though the code, I dont see anything that looks like it might fail that way, but thats easy to miss. first impression was that maybe userhelper was swallowing the "-f". But I've never seen problems with that before, and I wouldnt think it would work on the second try if that was the case. second thought was perhaps the client is storing the "-f" value in the config, and reading it the second time. But looking though the code, it doesnt look that should effect it (if anything, it would use "force" and write it out). Whats the "forceInstall" value in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date set to? at the moment, thats the only two possiblities that come to mind...
Contents of /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date: (default from install - I didn't change anything) # Automatically generated Red Hat Update Agent config file, do not edit. # Format: 1.0 storageDir[comment]=Where to store packages and other data when they are retrieved storageDir=/var/spool/up2date networkSetup[comment]=None networkSetup=1 headerCacheSize[comment]=The maximum number of rpm headers to cache in ram headerCacheSize=40 httpProxy[comment]=HTTP proxy in host:port format, e.g. squid.redhat.com:3128 httpProxy= debug[comment]=Whether or not debugging is enabled debug=0 useGPG[comment]=Use GPG to verify package integrity useGPG=1 networkRetries[comment]=Number of attempts to make at network connections before giving up networkRetries=5 removeSkipList[comment]=A list of package names, optionally including wildcards that up2date will not remove removeSkipList=kernel*; retrieveOnly[comment]=Retrieve packages only retrieveOnly=0 keepAfterInstall[comment]=Keep packages on disk after installation keepAfterInstall=0 enableProxy[comment]=Use a HTTP Proxy enableProxy=0 gpgKeyRing[comment]=The location of the gpg keyring to use for package checking gpgKeyRing=/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-keyring.gpg proxyUser[comment]=The username for an authenticated proxy proxyUser= proxyPassword[comment]=The password to use for an authenticated proxy proxyPassword= headerFetchCount[comment]=The maximimum number of rpm headers to fetch at once headerFetchCount=10 versionOverride[comment]=Override the automatically determined system version versionOverride= useNoSSLForPackages[comment]=Use the noSSLServerURL for package, package list, and header fetching useNoSSLForPackages=0 enableProxyAuth[comment]=To use an authenticated proxy or not enableProxyAuth=0 noSSLServerURL[comment]=Remote server URL without SSL noSSLServerURL=http://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC noReplaceConfig[comment]=When selected, no packages that would change configuration data are automatically installed noReplaceConfig=1 sslCACert[comment]=The location of the SSL CA certificate. sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT noBootLoader[comment]=To disable modification of the boot loader (lilo, silo, etc) noBootLoader=0 systemIdPath[comment]=Location of system id systemIdPath=/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid serverURL[comment]=Remote server URL serverURL=https://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC pkgSkipList[comment]=A list of package names, optionally including wildcards, to skip pkgSkipList=kernel*; adminAddress[comment]=List of e-mail addresses for update agent to communicate with when run in batch mode adminAddress=root@localhost; forceInstall[comment]=Force package installation, ignoring package, file and config file skip list forceInstall=0 fileSkipList[comment]=A list of file names, optionally including wildcards, to skip fileSkipList=; retrieveSource[comment]=Retrieve source RPM along with binary package retrieveSource=0
I see this too. When first run of up2date, it ignores -f switch. I used: up2date -u -f but kernel and imap has not been updated (like without -f switch).
I have no idea, and have never been able to duplicate this. The newest version of the client also includes a new config system and a new commandline parsing system, and I can seem to duplicate it there either, so I'm closing this out.
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-177.html