No updates

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 10:25 +0200, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm getting no updates any longer, not on my home desktop and not on my
> work laptop. Both run Fedora 7. I have verified that there are updated
> versions of a lot of packages, but 'yum update' still tell me that there
> are "No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion". I don't think I have gotten
> any update for at least two weeks.
> 
> # rpm -q selinux-policy
> selinux-policy-2.6.4-14.fc7
> # rpm -q selinux-policy-targeted
> selinux-policy-targeted-2.6.4-14.fc7
> # yum update
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
> Loading "skip-broken" plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Setting up Update Process
> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
> 
> Yes, I tried without the plugins. And no, my RPM database isn't broken, as
> I can install new packages just fine.
> 
> Regards
> Ingemar
> 
Being able to install rpms is not a test of whether your rpm database is
ok.
do a: rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*
and a:rpm  --rebuilddb

and see if that helps.
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