I'm not quite sure what I did to the script to break the creation of the 
repositories, but I have tweeked them a bit, and they seem to be fixed. 
  The yum repositories have now been correctly built.

The nightly yum.cron will be ok, but if you are doing it by hand today, 
you will probrubly need to do

   yum clean all
   yum update

to get the firefox updates.

Troy

Troy Dawson wrote:
> 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/ 
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>> 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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