Thanks for reporting these.
It seems something in our script isn't doing the repository right. 
We're working on it right now.
Troy

Robert E. Blair wrote:
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> I have also seen some funny behavior during the last two update cycles.
>  I had to hand download firefox and update it since the gnome applet
> reported it needed updating, but yumex found no update nor did yum.
> Going to exactly the same ftp location that appears in
> /etc/yum.repos.d/sl-errata.repo
> 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/42/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
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> I find an update to the 1.0.7 version of firefox.  The only (conscious)
> change I made to anything is to add a gpgcheck=1 to the end of
> /etc/yum.conf (is this not a desirable thing to have?).  I did this
> after the last cycle where I had to ftp the update over by hand and
> found that the signature for checking was missing - I got it and checked
> the signature which was fine and decided to include checking in the
> usual updates.
> 
> Is the index stuff not getting updated?
> 
> Mark Whidby wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>I'm new to SL so I may be doing something wrong, but a newly installed
>>machine of mine is showing that there are updates available for firefox,
>>openmotif and openmotif21. However, running 'yum update' says there are
>>no packages marked for update. Looking at:
>>
>>ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/x86_64/errata/SL/RPMS/repodata/index.html
>>
>>
>>shows the most recent errata being for sendmail on 22nd March. It looks
>>as though the repodata is not showing what it should do. The
>>corresponding URL for i386 architecture does show the openmotif (and
>>freedradius) errata for 4th April but not the recent firefox erratum.
>>Is there something not getting updated?
>>
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