Good morning,

yum check-update said "SLEA-2017:1977-1 (from sl-security) is broken, or a 
bad duplicate" & recommended --verbose. Output is below.
Me not sure what "SLEA-2017:1977-1" is!!

Is this something that someone supporting SL can fix?
PS we LOVE SL here!

root@lcgnetmon02> yum --verbose check-update
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Config time: 0.013
Yum version: 3.4.3
rpmdb time: 0.000
Building updates object
Setting up Package Sacks
EGI-trustanchors                                                                     | 2.5 kB  00:00:00     
sl                                                                                   | 4.0 kB  00:00:00     
sl-security                                                                          | 2.9 kB  00:00:00     
(1/6): EGI-trustanchors/primary_db                                                   |  60 kB  00:00:00     
(2/6): sl/x86_64/group_gz                                                            | 107 kB  00:00:00     
(3/6): sl-security/x86_64/updateinfo                                                 |  94 kB  00:00:00     
(4/6): sl/x86_64/primary_db                                                          | 5.0 MB  00:00:02     
(5/6): sl/x86_64/updateinfo                                                          | 2.2 MB  00:00:03     
(6/6): sl-security/x86_64/primary_db                                                 | 3.4 MB  00:00:03     
Determining fastest mirrors
 * sl: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
 * sl-security: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
pkgsack time: 6.937
up:Obs Init time: 0.207
up:simple updates time: 0.014
up:obs time: 0.003
up:condense time: 0.000
updates time: 7.632

kernel.x86_64                                  3.10.0-862.el7                                    sl-security
kernel-devel.x86_64                            3.10.0-862.el7                                    sl-security
kernel-headers.x86_64                          3.10.0-862.el7                                    sl-security
kernel-tools.x86_64                            3.10.0-862.el7                                    sl-security
kernel-tools-libs.x86_64                       3.10.0-862.el7                                    sl-security
kmod.x86_64                                    20-21.el7                                         sl-security
kmod-libs.x86_64                               20-21.el7                                         sl-security
linux-firmware.noarch                          20180220-62.git6d51311.el7                        sl-security
Duplicate of SLEA-2017:1977-1 differs in some fields:
<<<<<<< sl-security:description
None
=======
''
>>>>>>> sl:description
Update notice SLEA-2017:1977-1 (from sl-security) is broken, or a bad
duplicate, skipping.
You should report this problem to the owner of the sl-security repository.
If you are the owner, consider re-running the same command with --verbose to
see the exact data that caused the conflict.
updateinfo time: 2.242

Currently installed on node:
root@lcgnetmon02> rpm -qa | sort | egrep "kernel|kmod|linux-firm"
kernel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
kernel-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-tools-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64
kmod-20-15.el7.x86_64
kmod-libs-20-15.el7.x86_64
linux-firmware-20170606-58.gitc990aae.el7_4.noarch

Is it a problem with the linux-firmware package? (Just a guess!!)