Troy Dawson wrote:
> These all installed for me via yum.  Could you send me the output for 
> whatever error you got.

I see this problem too. I still only have firefox 1.0.4 installed:

# rpm -q firefox
firefox-1.0.4-1.4.1.i386

But a yum update doesn't spot this (no errors though):

# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
sl-base                   100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
sl-errata                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
sl-base   : ################################################## 1447/1447
sl-errata : ################################################## 201/201
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

Cheers,
Rob


> [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 
>> Recent errata at ftp.scientificlinux.org:/linux/scientific/40/ for i386
>> and x86_64 are not able to be installed using yum, for example in
>> ftp.scientificlinux.org:/linux/scientific/40/i386/errata/SL/RPMS:
>>
>> cpio-2.5-8.RHEL4.i386.rpm
>> firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>> thunderbird-1.0.6-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>> zlib-1.2.1.2-1.2.i386.rpm
>> zlib-devel-1.2.1.2-1.2.i386.rpm
>> devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.6.i386.rpm
>> devhelp-devel-0.9.2-2.4.6.i386.rpm
>> kdenetwork-3.3.1-2.3.i386.rpm
>> kdenetwork-devel-3.3.1-2.3.i386.rpm
>> kdenetwork-nowlistening-3.3.1-2.3.i386.rpm
>> mozilla-1.7.10-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>> mozilla-chat-1.7.10-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>> mozilla-devel-1.7.10-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>> mozilla-dom-inspector-1.7.10-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>> mozilla-js-debugger-1.7.10-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>> mozilla-mail-1.7.10-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>> mozilla-nspr-1.7.10-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>> mozilla-nspr-devel-1.7.10-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>> mozilla-nss-1.7.10-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>> mozilla-nss-devel-1.7.10-1.4.1.i386.rpm
>>
>> It is the same for packages in x86_64.
>>
>> Updating the kernel package to 2.6.9-11 does not install the
>> kernel-module-openafs for that kernel version using yum.
> 
> 
> Yes, sadly we know that.
> Our yum hacker, that put the kernel-module patch into yum 2.0, hasn't 
> had the time to put it into 2.2.
> I suppose that is one place where we should ask for help.  If anyone 
> wants to port the patch from yum 2.0 to yum 2.2, we would appreciate it.
> 
> Troy


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