On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Maciej Puzio <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Pat, "yum clean all" had no effect, however your reply pushed my
> investigation into a new direction and I was able to figure out what was
> wrong. Following an advice from this list, some time ago I had modified the
> repo file for sl-fastbugs, by replacing "$releasever" with "6x". I believed
> (wrongly) that this was all that was necessary to upgrade the system to 6.1.
> In fact I should have replaced every occurrence of "$releasever" in all SL
> repo files. Not having done that I ended with a 6.0/6.1 hybrid, which
> explains the dependency problems. I have now modified all repo files and
> with this change all dependencies resolve correctly. So I consider the
> problem solved. Since the server works OK and is current with security
> updates, the proper upgrade to 6.1, including the packages that I complained
> about, will have to wait until next maintenance day.

Or, you could have installed the "sl-release-6.1" package manually, or
half a dozen other tricks.