[Yum] installed, works, resolved connectivity issue, now ....how to get it to actually update.

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 18:24 +0000, garrett.allen at comcast.net wrote:
> after the network guys punched holes in the firewall all is well in terms of obtaining access to our site-local repository. (not local as in on this box but within our network, and yes, they are internal firewalls).
> 
> here is what i now see:
> 002# yum clean all
> Cleaning up Everything
> 0 headers removed
> 0 packages removed
> 0 metadata files removed
> 0 cache files removed
> 0 cache files removed
> 002# yum -y -d8 -c /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo update
> Repository local-repo already added, not adding again
> Yum Version: 2.3.2
> COMMAND: yum -y -d8 -c /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo update 
> Installroot: /
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://12.172.124.179/yum/rel001']
> local-repo                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Setting up Package Sacks
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  883 B    00:00     
> primary sqlite cache needs updating, reading in metadata
> local-repo: ################################################## 2/2
> Added 2 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.44 seconds
> Excluding Incompatible Archs
> Finished
> Reading Local RPMDB
> Building updates object
> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
> 002# 
> 
> i am running it as root.  the 2 rpms in the repository are not installed on the box.  how do i get the packages to update?
> 

If there is no earlier version of the packages installed then they are not an update.

if you want to install those pkgs then run:

yum install pkg1 pkg2

-sv