On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Jean-Paul Chaput wrote: > Thanks for your reply Jon. > > You pinpointed where my fault was : I use a patched version of > yum for which I've sets the Epoch to 1 (to prevent upgrade from > SL overwriting my version). > > So the requirement "yum < 3.1.0-0" is no longer met (for me, > should be "yum < 1:3.1.0-0") > > By the way I've got yum-utils-1.0.4-2.sl5.src.rpm, and one > difference I see in the spec file over the mysterious 1.0.4-3 > is the lack of requirement for 3.1.0-0 ... > > NB: my patch over yum adds a "synch" command which synchronise > a computer on one special group (useful to maintain large > group of computers). You *may* be able to just turn your patch into a yum plugin in which case it can be included in it's own rpm and not need to touch the standard stuff. There are examples of plugins which add new yum-commands though I've never examines any of them in detail, most just add extra options/switches etc. -- Jon