centos 5 trying to pull from el4?

[Michael E Brown]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:15:36PM -0500, Adam Williams wrote:
> I have a PE6800 w/ centos 5.1 i386, and when I run the comman to install 
> firmware-tools, you'll notice its trying to pull from el4 instead of 
> el5, why?

Not sure. 

I was in one of my "too busy with my real job to monitor
linux-poweredge" when this came in. Are you still seeing this issue?

Can you run "yum clean all" and see if you still see it?

If you still see it, there is probably something wrong with my metadata
that I will need to track down.
--
Michael

> 
> [root at archives4 ~]# yum -y install firmware-tools
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for firmware-tools to pack into transaction set.
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/el5/i386/firmware-tools/2.1.1-1.fc7/firmware-tools-2.1.1-1.el4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: 
> firmware-tools/2.1.1-1.fc7/firmware-tools-2.1.1-1.el4.noarch.rpm from 
> dell-software: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> [root at archives4 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 5 (Final)
> [root at archives4 ~]#
> 
> and if you notice, 
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/el5/i386/firmware-tools/2.1.1-1.fc7/firmware-tools-2.1.1-1.*el4*.noarch.rpm 
> doesn't exist, but 
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/el5/i386/firmware-tools/2.1.1-1.fc7/firmware-tools-2.1.1-1.*el5*.noarch.rpm 
> does.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list
> Linux-PowerEdge at dell.com
> http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
> Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq