One of my tasks in my new job [1] was to figure out why up2date stopped working. I was told it had an “SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) problem” that needed fixing.
I figured that an updated SSL library upgrade borked up2date but it turned out to be a much simpler problem: their certificate expired. Back in August.
Still didn't fix the RPM (RedHat Package Manager) problems [2] I was having. I did, however, find that rpm -i --nodeps foo.rpm worked when rpm -i --force foo.rpm failed. I personally would have thought that “forcing” the install would work, but aparently not. You have to tell rpm to ignore the dependancies.
Sigh.