Thanks for your reply Jon.

You pinpointed where my fault was : I use a patched version of
yum for which I've sets the Epoch to 1 (to prevent upgrade from
SL overwriting my version).

So the requirement "yum < 3.1.0-0" is no longer met (for me,
should be "yum < 1:3.1.0-0")

By the way I've got yum-utils-1.0.4-2.sl5.src.rpm, and one
difference I see in the spec file over the mysterious 1.0.4-3
is the lack of requirement for 3.1.0-0 ...

NB: my patch over yum adds a "synch" command which synchronise
    a computer on one special group (useful to maintain large
    group of computers).
     


On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 02:01 +0000, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> 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!
> 
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