Yum doesn't appear to update packages anymore

[alan]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Jacques B. wrote:

> Over the past several days it seems like yum is not doing any updates.
> I see postings on the list of updates, and my PC at the office seems
> to be grabbing the later versions, but not at home.  For example
> mlocate-0.14-0.fc5.1 is out.  My installed version is
> mlocate-0.12-1.2.  But when I do a yum update, it says no updates
> (same applies to the recent kernel release, it's not picking that up).
> I even went so far as to do a yum remove of mlocate and then a yum
> install of it and sure enough it still grabbed the -0.12-1.2 version
> rather than the latest one.  I have not been messing with the .repos
> so I can't understand why it has stopped updating.  Any suggestions?

Try "yum clean all" and see if that fixes it.  If not, try removing 
yum-changelog.  (That one gave me some weird problems similar to what you 
describe.)

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