[Yum-devel] Is "yum clean all" problem or repository issue? New packages could not show after "yum clean all"

[James Antill]

On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 20:04 +1000, jupiter wrote:

> >  Assuming all of that, it implies that the packages are being excluded
> > somehow ... you can try --disableexcludes and --showduplicates, maybe
> > use repoquery instead of yum.
> 
> I actually could not find --disableexcludes and --showduplicates in
> repoquery, so I tried with "yum list --showduplicates" in a client
> machine

 Yeh, it's --show-duplicates in repoquery.

> , magically the new packages were displayed although none of
> new packages have duplicates.

 As the documentation says "showduplicates" is slightly misnamed, by
default yum will show the latest package that you can install or upgrade
to ... showduplicates removes that filter.