On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Nick wrote: > To: centos@centos.org > From: Nick <oinksoc...@letterboxes.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] problems with yum_priorities on CentOS5/RHEL5 > > On 10/08/10 17:52, Keith Roberts wrote: >>> 1. yum check-updates and yum update do *not* warn you of an impending >>> unresolved dependency caused by YP hiding the required package. >>> >>> It seems the only way to find out is if you go ahead and try and perform the >>> update, which potentially leaves you with one or more broken packages. >>> This seems a serious flaw that should be fixed. >> >> Not necessarily so. >> I use '[root]# yum -y --skip-broken update' and this only >> updates the packages that have no depsolving problems. Any >> packages with problems are left out of the update. > > Ok, but this isn't a solution, if the broken dependency is related to > something > you care about. It just the easiest possible resolution to implement. > >>> 2. Not only do higher priority packages totally eclipse lower priorities, >>> whatever version, but yum_priorities also makes it seem like they aren't >>> even present. >> >> Well you can enable all your repos with: >> >> [root]# yum --enablerepo=* --disablerepo=Cmedia5 update (or >> whatever the DVD media repo name is). >> >> I have Centos 5.5, ATrpms, EPEL and remi repos all working >> reasonably well using yum-priorities plugin. > > I do wonder why the problem I've had isn't seen more often, as > perl-Module-Install (the package which requires the eclipsed package, > perl-Archive-Tar) is quite a common dependency of Perl packages. > > However, whether this problem manifests itself would depend on what packages > are > installed, not just which repositories are enabled. Maybe you're just lucky > (or > I'm unlucky), and don't need perl-Module-Install. > > Cheers, > > N
I don't seem to be using that package: Available Packages Name : perl-Module-Install Arch : noarch Version : 0.92 Release : 1.el5.rf Size : 156 k Repo : rpmforge Summary : Standalone, extensible Perl module installer URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Install/ License : Artistic/GPL Description: Module::Install is a standalone, extensible installer for Perl : modules. It is designed to be a drop-in replacement for : ExtUtils::MakeMaker, and is a descendent of CPAN::MakeMaker. Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
