[Yum] Re: yum: list/update to multiple versions of a package

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:09 -0500, Derrick Brashear wrote:
> 

> 
> I have a configured local repo
> (/afs/grand.central.org/archive/linuxdev/fedora8/x86_64) with: 
> 
> kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-devel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_64.rpm
> 
> My yum.conf includes:
> cat /var/lib/mock/fedora-8-x86_64/root/etc/yum.conf 
> ...
> [archive]
> name=archive
> baseurl=file:///afs/grand.central.org/archive/linuxdev/fedora8/x86_64/
> 
> The yum command is 
>  yum --installroot /var/lib/mock/fedora-8-x86_64/root list
> kernel-devel
> I get: 
> Installed Packages
> kernel-devel.x86_64                      2.6.23.9-85.fc8
> installed       
> Available Packages
> kernel-devel.x86_64                      2.6.23.1-42.fc8
> fedora          
> kernel-devel.x86_64                       2.6.23.8-63.fc8
> archive          
> 
> 
> 2.6.23-1.49 is missing.
> 
> I reran createrepo on the archive repo to be absolutely sure it's up
> to date. Same output.
> 

okay, let's go to the source for each of these and find out what's going
on.

cd /var/cache/yum/archive
run this:
sqlite3 primary.sqlite

then run:
select name, version, release, arch from packages where \ 
             name='kernel-devel';

tell me what it outputs

thanks,
-sv




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