A new yum has been released with an updated versionfix.list
We believe this will be the last update for versionfix.list for SL4, and this 
problem should be completely resolved.

SL 4.x

     SRPMS:
yum-2.4.3-5.SL.src.rpm
     i386:
yum-2.4.3-5.SL.noarch.rpm
     x86_64:
yum-2.4.3-5.SL.noarch.rpm

Troy Dawson

Troy J Dawson wrote:
> Synopsis:       Moderate: yum security update
> Issue date:     2008-10-06
> 
> When RedHat started putting the %{dist} variable into their rpm names, it took
> the Scientific Linux developers a while to believe that was what they were
> really going to settle on. (There were two other distribution naming schemes
> RedHat used before this, so we thought this one would only last a month or
> two.)  As a result, we ended up with several security updates with poor names.
>   These poorly named packages could not be updated when newer security updates
> came out.
> 
> This yum update contains a plugin called "versionfix".  Versionfix allows yum
> to update poorly named packages.  These poorly named packages will be updated
> the next time yum is run.  On a normal system, this will be the next day.
> 
> SL 4.x
> 
>     SRPMS:
> yum-2.4.3-4.SL.src.rpm
>     i386:
> yum-2.4.3-4.SL.noarch.rpm
>     x86_64:
> yum-2.4.3-4.SL.noarch.rpm
> 
> -Connie Sieh
> -Troy Dawson
> 
> 


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