yum update > No Packages yum clean metadata > yum clean all > yum update > Yes Packages ???

[lwaynej]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 15:53 -0500, ron wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Every time I'm notified by email of updates available:
> 
> Yum update says:
> 
> No Packages marked for Update.
> 
> After a:
> 
> # yum clean metadata
> 
> # yum clean all
> 
> Yum update says:
> 
> Yes Packages marked for Update.
> 
> Anyone know how I can fix this?
> 
> -ron-

Just for fun I thought I would try this to and I see the same thing. I
initially ran yum update and it indicated that there was nothing to
update. Then I ran 'yum clean metadata' and now there are a 180 MB of
stuff that yum wants to update:

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
Size 
=============================================================================
Updating:
 NetworkManager          i386       1:0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3204.fc8  updates
626 k
 NetworkManager-glib     i386       1:0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3204.fc8  updates
67 k
 NetworkManager-gnome    i386       1:0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3204.fc8  updates
277 k
 SDL                     i386       1.2.13-1.fc8     updates
222 k
...
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)         
Update      43 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 180 M
Is this ok [y/N]: 


I ran the following command to verify that there wasn't something up
with the Arch type or something:

# yum list installed | grep NetworkManager
NetworkManager.i386                      1:0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.
installed       
NetworkManager-glib.i386                 1:0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.
installed       
NetworkManager-gnome.i386                1:0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.
installed  

Now I too am curious as to what's going on with this. Clearly there is
something up...