FC3 : help, i broke my yum.

[Mike McCarty]

Skunk Worx wrote:

> I've ended up with a yum problem on a FC3 machine and am curious if 
> there is a way to fix it.
>
> 1) I've used rsync to create a local repository on my filesystem. This 
> seems fine. This is in preparation for lan-based updates.
>
> 2) Earlier in the week, before the rsync, I was running out of drive 
> space, and in a hurry, I deleted /var/cache/yum.
>
[snip]

> 5) Running "yum update" again took a little while, but it ran. 
> However, the final line of output is :
>
>  No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
>
> ...which I don't think is correct, since I can see newer packages in 
> the rsync repo (and the /var/log/yum.log shows the last update was 
> June 8th.)
>
> "yum install" is working properly, just no updates.
>
> Changing the baseurl's to http://some-net-repo yields the same result; 
> install of a package is okay, but no update/obsoletions are detected.
>
> Any ideas on how to correct this? Yum does not seem to be able to 
> detect the presence of the newer packages anymore.
>
> TIA,
> SW
>
Have you tried

# yum check-update

?

Mike

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