On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Maciej Puzio <[email protected]> wrote: > Pat, "yum clean all" had no effect, however your reply pushed my > investigation into a new direction and I was able to figure out what was > wrong. Following an advice from this list, some time ago I had modified the > repo file for sl-fastbugs, by replacing "$releasever" with "6x". I believed > (wrongly) that this was all that was necessary to upgrade the system to 6.1. > In fact I should have replaced every occurrence of "$releasever" in all SL > repo files. Not having done that I ended with a 6.0/6.1 hybrid, which > explains the dependency problems. I have now modified all repo files and > with this change all dependencies resolve correctly. So I consider the > problem solved. Since the server works OK and is current with security > updates, the proper upgrade to 6.1, including the packages that I complained > about, will have to wait until next maintenance day.
Or, you could have installed the "sl-release-6.1" package manually, or half a dozen other tricks.
