How To Force Yum To Update

[Robert L Cochran]

Yesterday I attempted to service my mother-in-law's FC4 computer, which 
I know needs about 100 Mb or so worth of updates -- most of that for 
OpenOffice. I only have a short window of opportunity to do this since 
she lives a fair distance. Each time I ran 'yum update' I would get 
responses very similar to this:

[...]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 969 kB    00:34
extras    : ################################################## 2815/2815
Added 15 new packages, deleted 12 old in 3.45 seconds
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

I know she needs an openoffice update. I don't think yum is running 
nightly, but I didn't check for that either, so I could be wrong. How do 
I force yum to find the updates?

Take Care

Bob Cochran