Dear SL devels,

I hope this is the right place to ask.

I just thought I will renew our Xen guests with 5.6, and after a fresh install, I have been unable to install kernel-xen-devel. I have tried a yum clean all with no luck.

Aug 09 16:57 [root@ppwn04:yum.repos.d]# uname -a

Linux ppwn04.lcg.cscs.ch 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Apr 12 19:17:57 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I can see the file in the repository:

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/56/x86_64/SL/kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5.x86_64.rpm

But a yum search does not help.

Aug 09 16:58 [root@ppwn04:yum.repos.d]# yum search kernel-xen-devel

Loaded plugins: kernel-module

EGI-trustanchors | 951 B 00:00

EGI-trustanchors/primary | 29 kB 00:00

EGI-trustanchors | 197/197

UMD-1-base | 1.9 kB 00:00

UMD-1-base/primary_db | 132 kB 00:00

UMD-1-updates | 1.9 kB 00:00

UMD-1-updates/primary_db | 32 kB 00:00

sl-base | 2.1 kB 00:00

sl-base/primary_db | 2.1 MB 00:02

sl-security | 1.9 kB 00:00

sl-security/primary_db | 116 kB 00:00

Excluding Packages in global exclude list

Finished

Warning: No matches found for: kernel-xen-devel

No Matches found

And of course yum install does not work either. The repo file looks fine to me:

Aug 09 16:54 [root@ppwn04:yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/sl.repo

[sl-base]

name=SL 5 base

baseurl=http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/56/$basearch/SL

http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/56/$basearch/SL

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/56/$basearch/SL

#mirrorlist=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-base-56.txt

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

# To use priorities you must have yum-priorities installed

priority=10

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl5 file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

How do I know if a a package is really provided by the repository?

I also see many other devel packages, but not the one I'm looking for.

Aug 09 16:56 [root@ppwn04:yum.repos.d]# yum search devel | wc

1271 9102 78548

I did some tests and it seems this is also happening in SL5.4. The package is manually installable, but aparently not with yum.

Any ideas would be highly apreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Pablo Fernandez