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). On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 02:01 +0000, Jon Peatfield wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Jean-Paul Chaput wrote: > > > Hi Scientific Linux, > > > > I've a problem with the latest update of yum-utils (1.0.4-3.el5) from > > the 5x flavor. This package requires yum 3.1.0-0, which seems to be > > non-existent. > > Are you sure? I see the following: > > $ rpm -qp --requires /opt/instsl/upstream/5x/i386/SL/yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm > /usr/bin/python > python >= 2.4 > rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 > rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 > yum >= 3.0.1-5 > yum < 3.1.0-0 > > so it wants a yum version of at least 3.0.1-5 and less than 3.1.0-0. > > > I tried to download the source package of yum-utils > > to find out whether it was a typo but can't find a matching source > > (can only get yum-utils-1.0.4-1.sl5.src.rpm). > > > > Am I doing something wrong? > > Well yum-utils-1.0.4-2.sl5.src.rpm also exists in the 5rolling/SRPMS/SL/ > tree, but I'd guess (since all the changelog entries for > yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm are from TUV) that the srpm just got > missed being copied into the tree... > > rpm -qp 5rolling/i386/SL/yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm --changelog > > shows no SL changes. > > Possibly more confusingly the yum-installonlyn package shows that it was > built from yum-utils-1.0.4-2.sl5.src.rpm > > $ rpm -qi yum-installonlyn > Name : yum-installonlyn Relocations: (not relocatable) > Version : 1.0.4 Vendor: Scientific Linux > Release : 2.sl5 Build Date: Wed Jan 2 19:24:14 2008 > Install Date: Wed Jan 16 17:28:49 2008 Build Host: norob.fnal.gov > Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: yum-utils-1.0.4-2.sl5.src.rpm > Size : 7591 License: GPL > Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed Jan 2 19:25:04 2008, Key ID da6ad00882fd17b2 > URL : http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/yum-utils/ > Summary : plugin which only leaves n 'kernel' packages installed > Description : > A plugin for yum which only leaves n 'kernel' packages installed instead > of infinitely doing installonly > > But that src.rpm *wasn't* used to make the yum-utils package since TUV's > yum-utils src.rpm was used instead. I'm now more confused than before I > started looking. > > Of course my trees arn't currently in synch 'cos I managed to break > something here while attempting to add 51 to the set of trees we rsync. > > > Thanks Troy & Connie for this great (and hard) work. > > Indeed we owe them a great deal! > -- .-. J e a n - P a u l C h a p u t /v\ A d m i n i s t r a t e u r S y s t e m e /(___)\ | ^^ ^^ |-- e-mail : [log in to unmask] `-- Tel : (33) 01.44.27.53.99 [prof.] 06.66.25.35.55 [port.] 01.47.46.01.31 [pers.] U P M C Universite Pierre & Marie Curie L I P 6 Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris VI A S I M Architecture des Systemes Integres et Micro-electronique