yum not showing any updates

[Gerry Tool]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 11:51 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 08:41 -0500, Gerry Tool wrote:
> > I just returned to my FC6T1 system after many days of ignoring it.  When
> > I do a yum update, I get:
> > 
> > [root at fc6t1 ~]# yum update
> > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Setting up repositories
> > Reading repository metadata in from local files
> > No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
> 
> Returned to your system as in booted up to it, or as in it's been on but
> you haven't played with it?
Booted to it.  It is on my only computer with a number of distro
partitions.  I had been spending my time in FC5.
> 
> If it has been booted up to and just not been played with, maybe the
> yum.cron service is on and it's been updating at night on it's own?
> 
> If it's the other way around, you using a mirror when trying to do this?
> Might need to do a yum clean all and retry it for some reason.
The yum clean all did the trick. I vaguely remembered there was such a
command, but could not come up with it.  Thanks for your reply, Mike.

Gerry