 | | | up2date shows phantom updates | up2date shows phantom updates 2005-08-04 - By Ed Greshko
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Tim Edwards wrote:
> We have installed our own custom apache RPMs onto a RHEL3 server, due to
> the fact that Redhat doesn't provide apache-1.3 which we need for
> mod_perl and various modules that go with it. We've removed the RHEL
> apache packages.
>
> Anyway the problem is that up2date keeps wanting to update our custom
> apache packages to the latest version from RHN. So an up2date -l will
> show this:
>
> Invalid metapkg id emacs-nox
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
>
> Name Version Rel
> -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
> httpd 2.0.46 46.2.ent i386
> httpd-devel 2.0.46 46.2.ent i386
>
> The following Packages are obsoleted by newer packages:
>
> Name-Version-Release obsoleted by Name-Version-Release
> -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
--
>
> apache-1.3.33-2.of httpd-2.0.46-46.2.ent
> apache-devel-1.3.33-2.of httpd-devel-2.0.46-46.2.ent
>
> The relevant entries in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date are:
> pkgSkipList[comment]=A list of package names, optionally including
> wildcards, to skip
> pkgSkipList=kernel-modules,httpd,httpd-devel,apache,apache-devel;
>
> removeSkipList[comment]=A list of package names, optionally including
> wildcards that up2date will not remove
> removeSkipList=kernel*,apache*;
>
>
> However these make no difference - it still does it.
Do you have "forceInstall=1" in your up2date by chance?
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