On 02/22/2011 10:27 AM, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Hi there,
> I've got a fresh install of SL5.5, and would like to set it up to use
> the "5x" repositories, whatever they are (or, to be more precise, I want
> this machine to receive updates from new releases as they come, and I
> think that replacing yum's conf files is the way to go). The most
> straightforward way is, I guess, replacing the yum-conf-55 package with
> yum-conf-5x. However, yum won't allow me to do that:
>
> # yum -y --skip-broken install yum-conf-5x
> ...
> Transaction Check Error:
>     file /etc/yum.conf from install of yum-conf-5x-1-9.SL.noarch
> conflicts with file from package yum-conf-55-1.SL.noarch
>
> People at #rhel on Freenode suggested that this is an error in the
> yum-conf-5x package which does not use the "obsoletes" feature of YUM.
>
> So, what shall I do in this case?
>
> With kind regards,
> Jan
>

rpm -e --nodeps yum-conf
rpm -Uvh 
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/SL/yum-conf-5x-1-9.SL.noarch.rpm

This has been fixed in SL6.0, but we're still trying to figure out a 
better way for SL5.  For now, you have to manually remove the one and 
add the other.

Troy
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