> Your subject says SL4x. Is that really where your yum is pointing or is > that just generic. we try and follow the x versions > Can you send the output of > rpm -qa | grep yum | sort [root@vtb-generic-34 ~]# rpm -qa | grep yum | sort warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature yum-2.4.3-10.SL.noarch yum-conf-4x-1-8.SL.noarch yum-protectbase-0.6-1.SL.noarch [root@vtb-generic-34 ~]# but of more use is the actual conf files probably: [root@vtb-generic-34 yum.repos.d]# cat sl4x.repo sl4x-errata.repo [sl-base] name=SL 4 base baseurl=http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/scientific/4x/$basearch/SL/RPMS http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/$basearch/SL/RPMS/ #mirrorlist=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-base-4x.txt enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl4 protect=1 [sl-errata] name=SL 4 errata baseurl=http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/scientific/4x/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/ http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/ ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/ #mirrorlist=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-errata-4x.txt enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl4 [root@vtb-generic-34 yum.repos.d]# since we add our local mirror in
