On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Jaroslaw Polok wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> 
> >        I just notice I have the problem as I got no nightly update
> >        since I have the dag version which had overriten the SL version
> >        (SL4.1) 
> >        
> >        Is it possible to do :
> > 
> >        yum erase yum
> >        ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/41/i386/errata/SL/RPMS/yum-2.4.0-3.SL.noarch.rmp
> >        rpm -Uvh yum-2.4.0-3.SL.noarch.rmp
> > 
> >        to retrieve a good yum ?
> 
> You do not need to erase yum probably (and if yes then rather with rpm 
> not yum ..)
> 
> You could do this that way:
> 
> rpm -Uvh \
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/41/i386/errata/SL/RPMS/yum-2.4.0-3.SL.noarch.rpm
> (you may need to add --oldpackage )
> 
> 
> Here at CERN for SLC4 in order to avoid such unpleasent
> surprises we are using the yum protectbase plugin
> and label our repositories as 'protected': ie any newer
> packages not coming from our repos are excluded from
> yum transactions:
> 
> - Maybe it would be worth including that plugin in
> SL (and configure it by default to enable repo protections) ?

We include that in the SLF site too.

What do others think?

-Connie Sieh
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jarek
> 
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