Updating with yum -- etc

[Paul Howarth]

Tim Holmes wrote:
> I have built several servers using Fedora Core 3, and normally, I use
> yum to keep them up to date with no problems -- it works nicely,
> however, I have one particular one which uses the newer version of MySQL
> -- 4.1xx
> 
> When I run a yum update, yum wants to roll me back to version 3x, which
> is obviously not desirable.  Is this normal behavior, or am I doing
> something wrong.  I would like to get everything up to date, so that I
> am not running the risk of security vulnerabilities.

Did you install MySQL 4.x using rpms, and not using any daft options 
like --nodeps or --force? If so, yum should not be doing this.

Can you report the output of:
$ rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
on this machine?

Paul.