Fedora 9 will not update

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:52:45 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:

> >> Could not find update match for yum
> >> No Packages marked for Update
> > 
> > Fine. You have the latest already.
> 
> Not necessarily.  The OP should "yum clean all", THEN "yum update".
> Sometimes there's stale repo data lurking about.  It's happened to me
> a number of times.

If the metadata were stale, Yum would not see lots of new packages [from
July even] as shown by the OP at the beginning of this thread.

Btw, please don't suggest "yum clean all" for metadata problems. Better is
to recommend "yum clean metadata dbcache" which does not remove cached
packages.