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.