Transaction Check Error occurs while updating yum

Issue

• We tried to update yum and creatrepo packages from RHEL5.0 to RHEL5.5 beta. We had the following error.

  # yum update yum createrepo
  
  <snipped>
  
  Transaction Summary
  =============================================================================
  Install      3 Package(s)
  Update      13 Package(s)
  Remove       0 Package(s)
  
  Total download size: 3.4 M
  Is this ok [y/N]: y
  Downloading Packages:
  Running Transaction Test
  Finished Transaction Test
  
  Transaction Check Error:   file /etc/rc.d/init.d/haldaemon from install 
  of hal-0.5.8.1-58.el5 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.8.1-19.el5
  file /usr/share/hal/fdi/fdi.dtd from install of hal-0.5.8.1-58.el5 conflicts 
  with file from package hal-0.5.8.1-19.el5
  file /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-power-mgmt-policy.fdi from install
  of hal-0.5.8.1-58.el5 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.8.1-19.el5
  

• Please note that this problem didn't happen when we tested updating yum from RHEL5.0 to RHEL5.4