[WBEL-users] Yum strange?

[Greg Knaddison]

On 6/24/05, Mike <mike at kamloopsbc.com> wrote:
> #yum check-update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> XFree86-Mesa-libGL                  i386   4.3.0-81.EL              updates-released
> XFree86-libs                        i386   4.3.0-81.EL              updates-released
> XFree86-libs-data                   i386   4.3.0-81.EL              updates-released
> comps                               i386   3.0.0whitebox-0.20050313 updates-released
> curl                                i386   7.10.6-6.rhel3           updates-released
> initscripts                         i386   7.31.18.EL-1.WB1         updates-released
> ipsec-tools                         i386   0.2.5-0.7                updates-released
> kernel                              i686   2.4.21-27.0.4.EL         updates-released
> kernel-smp                          i686   2.4.21-27.0.4.EL         updates-released
> krb5-libs                           i386   1.2.7-42                 updates-released
> krb5-workstation                    i386   1.2.7-42                 updates-released
> rpmdb-whitebox                      i386   3.0-0.20050313           updates-released
> sharutils                           i386   4.2.1-16.2               updates-released
> tcpdump                             i386   14:3.7.2-7.E3.5          updates-released
> telnet                              i386   1:0.17-26.EL3.2          updates-released
> whitebox-release                    i386   3.0-20_i386              updates-released
> 
> It looks like there's a bunch of updates to install, but when I run:
> # yum -y update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers [SNIP]
> No Packages Available for Update
> No actions to take
> 
> Am I missing something?

That's curious.

What does:

# yum --version

get you?

What about trying 

# yum update curl

or 

# yum list updates

If we can't solve your problem, you may have more luck in getting a
response direct on the yum mailing list.

Greg