Enigma: yum check-update doesn\\\'t show all rpms in a repository

[Dennis Shaw]

pmconway wrote:

>Thanks a lot for your replies, Dennis.  Yum list | grep alsa returned this:
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>  alsa-lib.i386   1.0.6-5          installed
>  alsa-utils.i386 1.0.6-3          installed
>  alsa-lib-debuginfo.i386 1.0.6-5  updates-released
>  alsa-lib-devel.i386           
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>Is alsa-lib-1.0.6-7.FC3.i386.rpm not considered an update to  alsa-lib.i386 1.0.6-5?
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>Maybe a simpler case: yum says 
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>gpdf.i386 2.8.2-1.2 installed
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>but when I do a yum check-update using the same repo above, yum doesn't return an available gpdf rpm - though Firefox, pointed to http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/updates/3/i386/, shows that gpdf-2.8.2-2.2.i386.rpm is available.
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>I'm really confused.  Thanks a lot for helping.
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>Trish
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No, it's not recognizing them as updates because the filenames aren't 
following the same naming convention. In the simpler example, if the 
newer file was named gpdf.i386-2.8.2-2.2.rpm, it would recognize it. 
Notice the placement of the i386.

Dennis