cannot update to latest, how should I proceed to apply updates

[Andrew Farris]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Andrew Farris wrote:
> 
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> based on what i've read, all that's
>>> necessary is for one of the new packages to officially obsolete
>>> libsmbios-bin, correct?
>> Looks like that is what the bz fix has, and it sounds correct to me.
>> libsmbios obsoletes libsmbios-bin
> 
> argh.  i just checked the development repos for both i386 and x86_64,
> and they both now have a newer version (".2") of libsmbios, which
> allegedly handles obsoletes correctly.  so i remove the cached earlier
> libsmbios package (".1") from my x86_64 system, run "yum update", and
> yum is *still* downloading and trying to install the earlier (wrong)
> version.
> 
> grrrrrrr ......

You're probably fetching from a different mirror than you're looking at in your 
browser.

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