On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Jean-Paul Chaput wrote:

> Hi Scientific Linux,
>
> I've a problem with the latest update of yum-utils (1.0.4-3.el5) from
> the 5x flavor. This package requires yum 3.1.0-0, which seems to be
> non-existent.

Are you sure?  I see the following:

$ rpm -qp  --requires /opt/instsl/upstream/5x/i386/SL/yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm
/usr/bin/python
python >= 2.4
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
yum >= 3.0.1-5
yum < 3.1.0-0

so it wants a yum version of at least 3.0.1-5 and less than 3.1.0-0.

> I tried to download the source package of yum-utils
> to find out whether it was a typo but can't find a matching source
> (can only get yum-utils-1.0.4-1.sl5.src.rpm).
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Well yum-utils-1.0.4-2.sl5.src.rpm also exists in the 5rolling/SRPMS/SL/ 
tree, but I'd guess (since all the changelog entries for 
yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm are from TUV) that the srpm just got 
missed being copied into the tree...

   rpm -qp 5rolling/i386/SL/yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm --changelog

shows no SL changes.

Possibly more confusingly the yum-installonlyn package shows that it was 
built from yum-utils-1.0.4-2.sl5.src.rpm

$ rpm -qi yum-installonlyn
Name        : yum-installonlyn             Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.0.4                             Vendor: Scientific Linux
Release     : 2.sl5                         Build Date: Wed Jan  2 19:24:14 2008
Install Date: Wed Jan 16 17:28:49 2008      Build Host: norob.fnal.gov
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: yum-utils-1.0.4-2.sl5.src.rpm
Size        : 7591                             License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Wed Jan  2 19:25:04 2008, Key ID da6ad00882fd17b2
URL         : http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/yum-utils/
Summary     : plugin which only leaves n 'kernel' packages installed
Description :
A plugin for yum which only leaves n 'kernel' packages installed instead
of infinitely doing installonly

But that src.rpm *wasn't* used to make the yum-utils package since TUV's 
yum-utils src.rpm was used instead.  I'm now more confused than before I 
started looking.

Of course my trees arn't currently in synch 'cos I managed to break 
something here while attempting to add 51 to the set of trees we rsync.

> Thanks Troy & Connie for this great (and hard) work.

Indeed we owe them a great deal!

-- 
Jon Peatfield,  Computer Officer,  DAMTP,  University of Cambridge
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