-- Le (On) 2011-02-22 +0100 à (at) 17:27:23 Jan Kundrát écrivit (wrote): -- > Hi there, > I've got a fresh install of SL5.5, and would like to set it up to use > the "5x" repositories, whatever they are (or, to be more precise, I want > this machine to receive updates from new releases as they come, and I > think that replacing yum's conf files is the way to go). The most > straightforward way is, I guess, replacing the yum-conf-55 package with > yum-conf-5x. However, yum won't allow me to do that: > > # yum -y --skip-broken install yum-conf-5x > ... > Transaction Check Error: > file /etc/yum.conf from install of yum-conf-5x-1-9.SL.noarch > conflicts with file from package yum-conf-55-1.SL.noarch > > People at #rhel on Freenode suggested that this is an error in the > yum-conf-5x package which does not use the "obsoletes" feature of YUM. > > So, what shall I do in this case? > Hello, what I do which work for me is : yum clean all yum -y update yum -y shell ~/yum-5x yum -y update yum yum clean all yum -y upgrade ~/yum-5x contains : erase yum-conf install yum-conf-5x run exit Hope this help. -- Best regards, Robert FRANCHISSEUR ____ Apollo_gist :-)_______________________________________________ | Robert FRANCHISSEUR | | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique - C.N.R.S. | | Equipe "R.A.M.S.E.S." - UPMC - Tour 45-55 3ème 315C | | Boite 99 - 4, place Jussieu F-75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 FRANCE | | Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 73 87 fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 62 72 | | e-mail : robert at lmd . jussieu . fr http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr | -------------------------------------------------------------------