[CentOS] Not getting updates?

Fri Mar 27 18:58:51 UTC 2015
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Mark Haney wrote:
> I installed CentOS 7 late last year to use as my Nagios/Cacti Monitoring
> server.  Clean install, nothing real complicated just the server version
> with no GUI, just command line/SSH.
>
> I have noticed over the last 3 months that I've not had ANY updates when I
> run 'yum update'.  I have run 'yum clean all' to see if that might be a
> problem, and I've made sure the updates repo is enabled (it is), but I'm
> getting no CentOS updates.
>
> Did something change that I'm not aware of?  I'm even clueless how to
> being debugging this.  I'm no noob to RPM based systems as I run Fedora
pretty
> much everywhere else.
>
> Ideas?

There's been a bunch. Two ideas: first, are the repos enabled (check in
/etc/yum.repos.d, and make sure enabled=1, and second, do you have any
excludes (and wildcards count) in /etc/yum.conf?

      mark