Yum doesn't appear to update packages anymore
J. K. Cliburn
jcliburn at gmail.com
Fri Mar 31 00:44:28 UTC 2006
On 3/30/06, Jacques B. <jjrboucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Over the past several days it seems like yum is not doing any updates.
> I see postings on the list of updates, and my PC at the office seems
> to be grabbing the later versions, but not at home. For example
> mlocate-0.14-0.fc5.1 is out. My installed version is
> mlocate-0.12-1.2. But when I do a yum update, it says no updates
> (same applies to the recent kernel release, it's not picking that up).
> I even went so far as to do a yum remove of mlocate and then a yum
> install of it and sure enough it still grabbed the -0.12-1.2 version
> rather than the latest one. I have not been messing with the .repos
> so I can't understand why it has stopped updating. Any suggestions?
This very thing happened to me last night, but tonight a yum update
works fine. When I installed FC5 last weekend, I modified my repo
files to pull from a half dozen repos geographically near me. I just
figured last night that the repos I use hadn't yet seen the updated
packages.
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