No new updates??

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 09:50 -0400, Don Flinn wrote:
> Jim
> 
> Thanks for the pointers.  My yum.conf matches yours and has enabled=1.
> But you started me looking.  My yum log file has at the end:
> ...
> Oct 15 05:21:34 Updated: openssl097a.i386 0.9.7a-3.1
> Oct 15 05:21:36 Updated: texinfo.i386 4.8-4.1
> Oct 15 05:21:41 Updated: openssl-devel.i386 0.9.7f-7.10
> 
> Then checking /etc/rc.d/init.d/yum script I see that it does nightly
> updates and that the lockfile in /var/lock/subsys/yum exists.  Is is
> that yum is smarter than me (not to hard) and silently does the update,
> so that when I manually run yum update there is really nothing to
> update? 
> 
Yep, if you tell it to do automatic updates it is unlikely that you will
find anything to manually do.

Only on the chance that an update was released after the last nightly
update and before you check manually would you see it.



> Don
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 22:33 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> > Don Flinn wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi
> > >
> > >For the past two weeks I have been informed that there are no new
> > >updates for Fedora 4 for my system.  Somehow I don't believe that.  I've
> > >used command line sudo yum update, Yum Extender and up2date all telling
> > >me no updates.  I've then run yum clean all and re-tried the above
> > >update methods.
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > Yum clean all just removes your rpms that were installed  and are 
> > accumulating until the cleanup cronjob for yum takes place. It removes 
> > the headers also.
> > 
> > Check your repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d to make sure that the 
> > repositories are enabled for updates, extras and the base repositories. 
> > It should have enabled=1 as the repo file below shows.
> > Another possibility is that your fedora-release package is messed up and 
> > not pointing to the correct release information. The $releasever 
> > (release version) is taken from this package. If you upgraded, It might 
> > be looking for your older installation files, depending upon how you 
> > setup your repos.
> > 
> > Just a few possibilities.
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> > cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
> > [updates-released]
> > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
> > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
> > enabled=1
> > gpgcheck=1
> > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >Have there been no updates for the past two weeks or do I have some
> > >corruption in yum?  If I have a corruption, how do I correct it?
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Don
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > QOTD:
> > 	If it's too loud, you're too old.
> > 
>