[CentOS] Broken repo / mirrors?

>> One  might as well just manually download stuff and manually use 
> 'rpm -hUv --test *.rpm' until it stops complaining.  Yech.  Yum is
> *supposed* to get us out of that game...

<computer> You lie to me, I take revenge by doing what you said without
regard to what you want.
Feed me garbage, I feed you processed garbage.  It's all bits to me.
</computer> 

> wget
http://mirror.nexcess.net/CentOS/5.5/updates/i386/RPMS/device-mapper-1.0
2.39-1.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
> yum localinstall ./device-mapper-1.02.39-1.el5_5.2.i386.rpm


and it got fixed in the mirrored cache anyhow so this solution should be
remembered for *type* not *detail*.
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