> > I just thought I will renew our Xen guests with 5.6, and after a fresh
> > install, I have been unable to install kernel-xen-devel. I have tried a
> > yum clean all with no luck.
> > 
> > I can see the file in the repository:
> > 
> > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/56/x86_64/SL/kernel-xen-d
> > evel-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
> > 
> > But a yum search does not help.
> > 
> > Aug 09 16:58 [root@ppwn04:yum.repos.d]# yum search kernel-xen-devel
> > Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> > Finished
> > Warning: No matches found for: kernel-xen-devel
> > No Matches found
> > 
> > 
> > How do I know if a a package is really provided by the repository?
> > 
> > I did some tests and it seems this is also happening in SL5.4. The
> > package is manually installable, but aparently not with yum.
> 
> Hi,
> "yum search" is not the command that you want.  That command searches in
> the description of a package for the string you give it.  It doesn't
> search the title of the package at all.
> 
> The command you want is "yum list" and "yum install"
> 
>    yum list  kernel-xen-devel
> 
> and then
> 
>    yum install kernel-xen-devel
> 
> or if you want a specific version, put that on as well
> 
>    yum install kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Troy

Hi Troy,

Not much :(

Aug 09 16:58 [root@ppwn04:yum.repos.d]# yum install kernel-xen-devel
Loaded plugins: kernel-module
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
No package kernel-xen-devel available.
Nothing to do

Aug 09 17:42 [root@ppwn04:yum.repos.d]# yum list kernel-xen-devel
Loaded plugins: kernel-module
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Error: No matching Packages to list


BR/Pablo