yum not showing any updates

[Gerry Tool]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:21 -0700, oldman wrote:
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> 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?
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 	I find that if I do a 'yum clean metatdata', Yum often will come back
> with the updates.  Doing a 'yum clean all', will delete the cache which
> means I can't roll back to earlier versions of rpms if necessary.
I got to the yum clean all before reading your message.  Maybe next
time.  Thanks for your reply, oldman.  Probably not as old as I am.

Gerry