Thanks for your help Bart. I had to download the device-mapper RPMs and manually upgrade them first. Once I'd done that, the upgrade went fine.
Bart Schaefer wrote:
The mirrors that are being selected for you must not be fully up to date. I don't know why that would be the case, but from a not-yet-updated (actually still 5.2) system I get:
Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
- rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
- base: mirror.facebook.net
- updates: mirror.facebook.net
- addons: mirror.facebook.net
- extras: centos-distro.cavecreek.net
444 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Installed Packages device-mapper.i386 1.02.24-1.el5 installed device-mapper-event.i386 1.02.24-1.el5 installed device-mapper-multipath.i386 0.4.7-17.el5 installed Available Packages device-mapper.i386 1.02.32-1.el5 base device-mapper-event.i386 1.02.32-1.el5 base device-mapper-multipath.i386 0.4.7-30.el5 base _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos