Linux – Why won’t the package upgrade with yum

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I'm trying to upgrade a package using yum on Fedora 8. The package is elfutils. Here's what I have installed locally:

$ yum info elfutils
Installed Packages
Name   : elfutils
Arch   : x86_64
Version: 0.130
Release: 3.fc8
Size   : 436 k
Repo   : installed
Summary: A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects

There's a bug in this version, and according to the bug report, a newer version has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. But, if I try to update:

$ yum update elfutils
Setting up Update Process
Could not find update match for elfutils
No Packages marked for Update

Here are my repositories:

$ yum repolist enabled
repo id              repo name                                 status
InstallMedia         Fedora 8                                  enabled
fedora               Fedora 8 - x86_64                         enabled
updates              Fedora 8 - x86_64 - Updates               enabled

What am I missing?

Best Answer

OK, I figured it out. I needed to upgrade the fedora-release package. That allowed me to see all of the updated packages. Thanks to ethyreal for pointing me to the Yum upgrade FAQ.

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