Problems after update of yum and rpm

[Michael Schwendt]

On 24/10/2007, Vassilios Kotoulas <fedoralist at kotoulas.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I wanted to yum update my F7 and found some missing dependencies.
> So I updated only some packages including yum and rpm using yumex.
>
> Oct 24 19:09:01 kra yum(yumex): Updated: gc.i386 7.0-6.fc7
> Oct 24 19:09:06 kra yum(yumex): Updated: gettext.i386 0.16.1-9.fc7
> Oct 24 19:09:06 kra yum(yumex): Updated: groff-gxditview.i386 1.18.1.4-7.fc7
> Oct 24 19:09:06 kra yum(yumex): Updated: groff-perl.i386 1.18.1.4-7.fc7
> Oct 24 19:09:15 kra yum(yumex): Updated: groff.i386 1.18.1.4-7.fc7
> Oct 24 19:09:16 kra yum(yumex): Updated: rpm-libs.i386 4.4.2.2-2.fc7
> Oct 24 19:09:20 kra yum(yumex): Updated: rpm.i386 4.4.2.2-2.fc7
> Oct 24 19:09:37 kra yum(yumex): Updated: rpm-devel.i386 4.4.2.2-2.fc7
> Oct 24 19:09:37 kra yum(yumex): Updated: rpm-python.i386 4.4.2.2-2.fc7
> Oct 24 19:09:39 kra yum(yumex): Updated: rpm-build.i386 4.4.2.2-2.fc7
> Oct 24 19:12:56 kra yum(yumex): Updated: xscreensaver-base.i386 1:5.03-12.fc7
> Oct 24 19:12:56 kra yum(yumex): Installed: xscreensaver-gl-base.i386 1:5.03-12.fc7
> Oct 24 19:13:00 kra yum(yumex): Updated: xscreensaver-gl-extras.i386 1:5.03-12.fc7
> Oct 24 19:13:06 kra yum(yumex): Updated: xscreensaver-extras.i386 1:5.03-12.fc7
> Oct 24 19:13:06 kra yum(yumex): Updated: tempest.i386 0-0.4.20070929.fc7
> Oct 24 19:13:11 kra yum(yumex): Updated: tempest-xscreensaver.i386 0-0.4.20070929.fc7
> Oct 24 19:13:11 kra yum(yumex): Updated: xscreensaver.i386 1:5.03-12.fc7
> Oct 24 19:13:12 kra yum(yumex): Updated: procinfo.i386 18-21.fc7
> Oct 24 19:13:14 kra yum(yumex): Updated: yum.noarch 3.2.7-1.fc7
>
> After this yum update can't find any more updates but I know from before
> the update that more updates are available (ie firefox). Any Idea what
> happened?

"yum clean metadata", then try again? When you're using the default
mirrorlist feature, maybe you've been assigned to a mirror that
doesn't carry the latest updates yet? Point yum to your favourite
Fedora mirror, so you don't need to rely on the mirrorlist.