How To Force Yum To Update

[jdow]

From: "Robert L Cochran" <cochranb at speakeasy.net>

> 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

How do you know it is needed? Is it possible she's already updated via
a cron job? What does "rpm -q openoffice.org-core" return? It returns
"openoffice.org.core-2.0.1.1-5.1" here. And this is from a VERY recent
update, in the day or so.

Are you looking at "updates-released", "extras", and "base"? If not
you need to configure yum so that it is.

{^_^}