[Yum] installroot question

[Jim Perrin]

Hijacking threads is bad, mmkay?

On Dec 17, 2007 11:29 AM, John Lee <john.lee at dtiteam.com> 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.
>
> Thank you,
>
> John
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