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) ?

Cheers

Jarek

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