I updated a couple of servers from mostly-up-to-date RHEL 5.3 to the current RHEL 5.4+updates via "yum update", and I got a bunch of bogus dependencies added in.
On a 32 bit server, yum wanted to add amanda (backup software). On a 64 bit server, yum wanted to add KDE, GTK, Ruby, and a whole bunch more (on a server without X installed). I tracked it down to libxml2-python requiring /usr/lib/python2.4 (or lib64 on the 64 bit system). Running yum with debugging enabled, I see that a bunch of packages provide that directory (including amanda and kdebindings), and yum decided that since python was already installed, it didn't count. Anybody else see this and/or report this to Red Hat? If I can't run "yum update" (annoyingly, "yum check-update" doesn't resolve dependencies) in a semi-automated fashion without it pulling in the kitchen sink, I'm going to be very unhappy with RHEL. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
