why i cannt only update pidgin through yum

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:29 +0800, Ken YANG wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:16 +0800, Ken YANG wrote:
> >> i found i can not update pidgin to 2.1 through yum,
> >> but there are not "pidgin exclude" in my yum conf file:
> >>
> >> exclude=kernel* python-virtinst* xen* xorg-x11-drv-nv
> >> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau libraw1394
> >>
> >> my current pidgin is:
> >>
> >> pidgin-2.0.0-0.34.beta7devel.fc7.i386
> >>
> >>
> >> i'm in f8 rawhide, and my laptop is in same condition,
> >> but that pidgin had updated to 2.1.
> >>
> >> can anyone give me some hints?
> > 
> > is there a specific error you're receiving?
> 
> no error, i can update other things smoothly, e.g.
> i just update today rawhide, including:
> 
> glibc-2.6.90-10.i686
> hardinfo-0.4.2.2-17.fc8.i386
> rpm-4.4.2.1-8.fc8.i386
> ......
> 
> 
> but in the update list, there are not pidgin, and i
> update only pidgin:
> 
> yum update pidgin
> 
> this still doesnt work, which told me "Could not find update match for
> pidgin"
> 

that means there is no update for pidgin available in the repositories
or mirrors you are using.

try this: yum list updates pidgin

-sv