Hi all,
after up2date (RHN) of the newest Red Hat ES 3 packages:

[root@hogarth mail]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 5)
[root@hogarth mail]# uname -a
Linux hogarth 2.4.21-32.EL #1 Fri Apr 15 21:17:56 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root@hogarth mail]# up2date -l
Invalid metapkg id emacs-nox

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3...

Fetching rpm headers...

Name Version Rel
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[root@hogarth mail]#

I'm not sure as I don't have RH, but:

TAKEN FROM: http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar...desc.emacs-nox
emacs-nox: emacs-nox (Emacs binary without X support)
emacs-nox:
emacs-nox: A replacement /usr/bin/emacs binary that is not compiled with X11 menu
emacs-nox: support. This version of emacs is about 400K smaller than the full
emacs-nox: version of emacs, and is the same in every respect except for X11
emacs-nox: extensions.

So emacs-nox are help databases.

Metapkg sounds like an install utility, such as installpkg and slackpkg, etc.

Seems like you didn't choose or set which servers to update from. Look in your packages file. Reply back.

--Abid Kazmi

Name Version Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
authconfig 4.3.7 3 i386
authconfig-gtk 4.3.7 3 i386
binutils 2.14.90.0.4 37 i386
comps 3ES 0.20050512 i386
cpp 3.2.3 52 i386
gcc 3.2.3 52 i386
gcc-c++ 3.2.3 52 i386
glibc 2.3.2 95.33 i686
glibc-common 2.3.2 95.33 i386
glibc-devel 2.3.2 95.33 i386
glibc-headers 2.3.2 95.33 i386
gnome-panel 2.2.2.1 10 i386
initscripts 7.31.22.EL 2 i386
kdebase 3.1.3 5.9 i386
kernel 2.4.21 32.EL i686
krb5-devel 1.2.7 44 i386
krb5-libs 1.2.7 44 i386
krb5-workstation 1.2.7 44 i386
libgcc 3.2.3 52 i386
libgcj 3.2.3 52 i386
libobjc 3.2.3 52 i386
libstdc++ 3.2.3 52 i386
libstdc++-devel 3.2.3 52 i386
losetup 2.11y 31.6 i386
metacity 2.4.55 7.15 i386
mount 2.11y 31.6 i386
nscd 2.3.2 95.33 i386
openssh 3.6.1p2 33.30.4 i386
openssh-askpass 3.6.1p2 33.30.4 i386
openssh-askpass-gnome 3.6.1p2 33.30.4 i386
openssh-clients 3.6.1p2 33.30.4 i386
openssh-server 3.6.1p2 33.30.4 i386
pam 0.75 64 i386
parted 1.6.3 29.5 i386
popt 1.8.2 21_nonptl i386
redhat-release 3ES 13.5.1 i386
rpm 4.2.3 21_nonptl i386
rpm-build 4.2.3 21_nonptl i386
rpm-libs 4.2.3 21_nonptl i386
rpm-python 4.2.3 21_nonptl i386
rpmdb-redhat 3 0.20050512 i386
samba 3.0.9 1.3E.3 i386
samba-client 3.0.9 1.3E.3 i386
samba-common 3.0.9 1.3E.3 i386
tzdata 2005f 1.EL3 noarch
util-linux 2.11y 31.6 i386
wget 1.9.1 16.EL3.1 i386

Oh, there we go. Your list of things doesn't include emacs-nox. For some odd reason, up2date is trying to update emacs-nox but its not even in your list of packages (if that's all of them).

--Abid Kazmi

Yes, this is the hole list of the updated rpms.

That's the reason why I ask for ideas, why the os did show me this messages.

I never said this wasn't the "whole" list. I said that up2date had an error and was "trying" to force update emacs that wasn't on your packages list.

--Abid Kazmi

Keep cool,

Red Hat added the issue to Bugzilla with the id 158239.
This appears to be a bug in the Red Hat Network database schema most probably, it looks like it was introduced by Update 5.
But this is not a blocker and it's not causing serious disruption to the systems operations.

I should've said to you to report this problem to RedHat earlier. Good to know you weren't doing anything wrong.

--Abid Kazmi

Hi all,

the issue with the up2date annoying message was traced to a small problem in the comps package where it's made reference to the emacs-nox package which Red Hat do not ship.
This was scheduled to be fixed in RHEL 3 Update 6.


Cheers

Thanks for letting us know haddel. =)

--Abid Kazmi