[Yum] installroot question

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 08:29 -0800, John Lee wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Can someone explain to me why my centos-5.0 repository has the
> following two rpm packages in the base repository, causing errors when
> running 'yum update', since it can't find the right dependencies?  
>  
> Here's the content of my repository for centos5.  Shouldn't
> hal-0.5.8.1-25 and gcc-4.1.2-14 belong in the 5.1 repository?  I
> compared it to
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.0/os/i386/CentOS/ repository and
> it doesn't have the later versions of those two packages.  So why does
> my 5.0 repository have the following two packages timestamped Nov. 20?
>  
> [root at dragon os]# pwd
> /var/www/mrepo/centos5-i386/os
> [root at dragon os]# ls -alh | grep hal-0.5
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  371K Apr  3  2007 hal-0.5.8.1-19.el5.i386.rpm
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  375K Nov 20 11:12 hal-0.5.8.1-25.el5.i386.rpm
> [root at dragon os]# ls -alh | grep gcc-4
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  5.0M Apr  3  2007 gcc-4.1.1-52.el5.i386.rpm
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  5.3M Nov 20 11:11 gcc-4.1.2-14.el5.i386.rpm
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   82K Apr  3  2007
> libgcc-4.1.1-52.el5.i386.rpm
>  
>  
> Again, it's causing an error when runinng yum update because it's
> trying to update hal, and it can't find its dependcies since they're
> all located in the 5.1 repository.  The client is a 5.0 box.
>  

No idea - you'd be best off asking on the centos-list.

-sv