> /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo has this: > > #released updates > [updates] > name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates > mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates > #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ > gpgcheck=1 > enabled=1 > priority=1 > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 You can update this yourself to hardcode the 5.4 version of your mirror, e.g someone else in this thread said this was their mirror : http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/centos/5.3/updates/i386/ and you can change the 5.3 to 5.4 to see that 5.4 is there already, but maybe the "5" symlink has not yet been changed to point to it http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/centos/5.4/updates/i386/ So update the repo file to something like this : > #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates > baseurl=http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/centos/5.4/updates/i386/ -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"