Kind of disappointed that no one responded to my question. I was able to create a work-around. I deleted all the files from /var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages and then used $ yum check-update > temporary_list to get a list of all packages that could be upgraded. I then edited that file to remove packages I did not want to upgrade and also to remove everything but the name of the packages I did want. I then issued: $ yum update $(cat temporary_list_edited) I installed a new kernel with: $ yum install kernel. Jason S. Friedman said: > I'm running Fedora Core 2. > > $ yum check-update > yields a list of a few dozen packages that could be > updated. > > However, > $ yum --download-only update > just downloads the headers. Nothing has been added > (recently) to /var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages. > > It's especially odd because a couple of weeks ago I used > 'check-update' followed by '--download-only update' to > successfully download a bunch of rpms. >
