[CentOS] Problems with yum not updating properly

[William L. Maltby]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:42 -0800, MHR wrote:
> Has anyone else seen this?
> 
> I recently got the announcement about the xorg 1.5 update being
> available, so I ran yum update to get it.
> 
> To my surprise, I found that yum did not see it at all.
> 
> With some help from Karanbir (thanks again), we decided there might be
> something wrong with my repo path, so I checked it against the older
> one I had from 5.0 (which I saved, for some reason) and found that the
> new ones did not have protect or enable commands in them, so I added
> them to match my 5.0 ones.
> 
> Yum suddenyl found the xorg 1.5 updates and installed them.
> 
> But now, yum can't see the wireshark update, and although I probably
> don't need it since I don't use that (AFAIK), yum does not see that
> one, but suddenly it sees a kernel update (2.6.18-53.1.6).
> 
> Anyone have a clue why this might be (or what I should post here to
> help clera it up)? 
> 
> Here is my CentOS-Base.repo:
> 
> # CentOS-Base.repo
> #
> # This file uses a new mirrorlist system developed by Lance Davis for
> CentOS.
> # The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and
> the 
> # update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and
> # geographically close to the client.  You should use this for CentOS
> updates
> # unless you are manually picking other mirrors.
> #
> # If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try
> the 
> # remarked out baseurl= line instead.
> #
> #
> 
> [base]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=
> $basearch&repo=os
> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
> protect=1
> #enabled=1
> 
> #released updates 
> [updates]

s/es/s/   # ?

> <snip>

HTH
-- 
Bill