I am having a puzzling problem with yum. I have not updated my FC6 box
(Pentium 4) since December but '$sudo yum update' told me that there
were no packages marked for update. Puzzled, I gave myself root
privileges using 'su -' and did a clean-up using the command,
# yum clean all
This started to look promising, but the same message was returned after
it had chewed through the repos:
[root@tokyoii ~]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 66 kB 00:00
livna : ################################################## 222/222
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.3 kB 00:00
adobe-linu: ################################################## 2/2
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 824 kB 00:01
core : ################################################## 2242/2242
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 475 kB 00:01
updates : ################################################## 1285/1285
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.7 MB 00:03
extras : ################################################## 5211/5211
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
[root@tokyoii ~]#
On the off-chance, I also restarted the updates daemon, even though as I
understand it this would not have any effect on the actual updating
process, but this has not changed anything either. I have not changed my
yum config files since installation (except to keep a few more copies of
packages than the standard 2 (as per installonlyn.conf). Yesterday I
installed qtparted with yum just to see if that would work and it did. I
have looked through the man pages and done some googling but nothing on
precisely this problem, as far as I can see. I should add that I have
seen this before but it has "just" cleared up.
Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance,
Ian Astley
