Peter Gordon wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 07:11 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > >> yum update: Nothing to update >> yum clean all: some cleaning is done >> yum update: now runs with some updates. >> >> Can somebody explain this behaviour? >> > > Looks like you had a stale cache. E.g., Your cached metadata and whatnot > was of a slightly outdated mirror, so when you tried to update the first > time there was nothing that needed to be done. > > But after you cleaned the cache and metadata, Yum retrieved that of a > _new_ mirror with updated repository data, and thus was able to run > through your updates as expected. > > Hope that helps. > Hi Joachim, Peter is right, the mirror that you used was not up-to-date. You should consider using a baseurl= insted of mirrorlist= in your repositories. You are from Germany, so you could use http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/fedora/linux/releases. Look in /etc/yum.repos.d and you'll figure it out. Hope it helped, Sincerely, Bazy
