How To Force Yum To Update

[Thomas Springer]

Am Sonntag, den 22.01.2006, 21:14 -0500 schrieb Robert L Cochran:

>  I only showed enough to give a context. I showed this example to
>  illustrate what I'm talking about, and not at all as output from the
>  machine of interest.

I noticed the term *similar*

> By default, the yum service in FC4 is turned off. You have to turn it on 
> with chkconfig or ntsysv. I checked /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron and it 
> checks for the yum service; if it is running, the cron job executes.

Right.

> The question remains: how can I force yum to update when known updates 
> (per fedora-announce-list) are available?

You cannot. But you could narrow the problem down when querying the
updates-released repo and compare that with a local rpmquery. In case (i
can't believe that) yum ignores to update when a newer version is
already available localinstall is an option.


Thomas
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