On 08/09/2011 10:11 AM, Pablo Fernandez wrote:
> Dear SL devels,
>
>
> I hope this is the right place to ask.
>
> I just thought I will renew our Xen guests with 5.6, and after a fresh
> install, I have been unable to install kernel-xen-devel. I have tried a
> yum clean all with no luck.
>
>
> Aug 09 16:57 [root@ppwn04:yum.repos.d]# uname -a
>
> Linux ppwn04.lcg.cscs.ch 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Apr 12
> 19:17:57 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> I can see the file in the repository:
>
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/56/x86_64/SL/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
>
>
> But a yum search does not help.
>
> Aug 09 16:58 [root@ppwn04:yum.repos.d]# yum search kernel-xen-devel
>
> Loaded plugins: kernel-module
>
> EGI-trustanchors | 951 B 00:00
>
> EGI-trustanchors/primary | 29 kB 00:00
>
> EGI-trustanchors | 197/197
>
> UMD-1-base | 1.9 kB 00:00
>
> UMD-1-base/primary_db | 132 kB 00:00
>
> UMD-1-updates | 1.9 kB 00:00
>
> UMD-1-updates/primary_db | 32 kB 00:00
>
> sl-base | 2.1 kB 00:00
>
> sl-base/primary_db | 2.1 MB 00:02
>
> sl-security | 1.9 kB 00:00
>
> sl-security/primary_db | 116 kB 00:00
>
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
>
> Finished
>
> Warning: No matches found for: kernel-xen-devel
>
> No Matches found
>
>
>
> And of course yum install does not work either. The repo file looks fine
> to me:
>
>
> Aug 09 16:54 [root@ppwn04:yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/sl.repo
>
> [sl-base]
>
> name=SL 5 base
>
> baseurl=http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/56/$basearch/SL
>
> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/56/$basearch/SL
>
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/56/$basearch/SL
>
> #mirrorlist=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-base-56.txt
>
> enabled=1
>
> gpgcheck=0
>
> # To use priorities you must have yum-priorities installed
>
> priority=10
>
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl5
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>
>
>
> How do I know if a a package is really provided by the repository?
>
>
> I also see many other devel packages, but not the one I'm looking for.
>
> Aug 09 16:56 [root@ppwn04:yum.repos.d]# yum search devel | wc
>
> 1271 9102 78548
>
>
>
> I did some tests and it seems this is also happening in SL5.4. The
> package is manually installable, but aparently not with yum.
>
>
> Any ideas would be highly apreciated.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Pablo Fernandez
>
>
>

Hi,
"yum search" is not the command that you want.  That command searches in 
the description of a package for the string you give it.  It doesn't 
search the title of the package at all.

The command you want is "yum list" and "yum install"

   yum list  kernel-xen-devel

and then

   yum install kernel-xen-devel

or if you want a specific version, put that on as well

   yum install kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5

Hope this helps.
Troy
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