How can I fix this? (See below) up2date seems to be skipping some important packages during the update process.



[root@www root]# up2date -uv

Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-8.0...
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Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-8.0...
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Fetching rpm headers...
The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration:

Name Version Rel Reason
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ttfonts-ja 1.2 16 Config modified
No advisory information available

mailcap 2.1.12 1 Config modified
No advisory information available


None of the packages you requested were found, or they are already updated.

So... your system is up to date...

You have configured your up2date client so that it skips packages which would install a config file with changes (in that case you may need to verify your configuration). Run up2date --configure or up2date-config and change that setting.

check items in the skip list, use -f option to override this.

Also, use rpm -q package name to verify the version. If it's the same, then your good.

You may need up2date -p to re-sync your rom db with RHN db.
You may need to clear out /var/spool/up2date of all files.

Thanks jhibbets! I did up2date -uvf as you suggested and it fixed the problem.