On 02/22/2011 10:27 AM, Jan Kundrát 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? > > With kind regards, > Jan > rpm -e --nodeps yum-conf rpm -Uvh http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/SL/yum-conf-5x-1-9.SL.noarch.rpm This has been fixed in SL6.0, but we're still trying to figure out a better way for SL5. For now, you have to manually remove the one and add the other. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __________________________________________________