On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 11:25 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
if I'm upgrading a CentOS 5.4 system, and there's no CentOS 5.5, I don't see why yum should find a 5.5 package.
You're missing the point.
epel is a repo intended for RHEL, and by a happy coincidence you can use their repo for Centos too.
RHEL 5.5 is out, so epel provides updates for it.