When a repo contains a package that obsoletes one from a repo with higher precedence (lower prio) it is correctly excluded from the list of packages from the repo. When there are other lower versions of the excluded package existing in the same repo these are NOT removed, causing yum to attempt an unnecessary upgrade.
I can observe this through inclusion of the rpmforge-extras (http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge [^]) repo having a higher priority than the base repo: [root@localhost ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror01.th.ifl.net * epel: mirrors.coreix.net * extras: mirror01.th.ifl.net * rpmforge: ftp.heanet.ie * rpmforge-extras: ftp.heanet.ie * updates: mirror01.th.ifl.net 1926 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package perl-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 0:2.020-127.el6 will be obsoleted --> Processing Dependency: perl-Compress-Zlib for package: perl-core-5.10.1- 127.el6.x86_64 ---> Package perl-IO-Compress.noarch 0:2.037-1.el6.rfx will be obsoleting --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Bzip2) = 2.037 for package: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.037 for package: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch ---> Package perl-IO-Compress-Base.x86_64 0:2.020-127.el6 will be obsoleted --> Processing Dependency: perl-IO-Compress-Base for package: perl-core- 5.10.1-127.el6.x86_64 ---> Package perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2.x86_64 0:2.020-127.el6 will be obsoleted --> Processing Dependency: perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 for package: perl-core- 5.10.1-127.el6.x86_64 ---> Package perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 0:2.020-127.el6 will be obsoleted --> Processing Dependency: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib for package: perl-core- 5.10.1-127.el6.x86_64 --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: perl-core-5.10.1-127.el6.x86_64 (@base) Requires: perl-IO-Compress-Base Removing: perl-IO-Compress-Base-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 (@base) perl-IO-Compress-Base = 2.020-127.el6 Obsoleted By: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch (rpmforge- extras) Not found Error: Package: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch (rpmforge-extras) Requires: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.037 Installed: 1:perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 (@base) perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.020 Error: Package: perl-core-5.10.1-127.el6.x86_64 (@base) Requires: perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 Removing: perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 (@base) perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 = 2.020-127.el6 Obsoleted By: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch (rpmforge- extras) Not found Error: Package: perl-core-5.10.1-127.el6.x86_64 (@base) Requires: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib Removing: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 (@base) perl-IO-Compress-Zlib = 2.020-127.el6 Obsoleted By: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch (rpmforge- extras) Not found Error: Package: perl-core-5.10.1-127.el6.x86_64 (@base) Requires: perl-Compress-Zlib Removing: perl-Compress-Zlib-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 (@base) perl-Compress-Zlib = 2.020-127.el6 Obsoleted By: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch (rpmforge- extras) Not found Error: Package: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch (rpmforge-extras) Requires: perl(Compress::Raw::Bzip2) = 2.037 Installed: perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 (@base) perl(Compress::Raw::Bzip2) = 2.020 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest I have included a patch to be applied to '/usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py' that appears to fix the problem by removing all traces of a obsoleting package requiring exclusion from the package list. Whether this is correct behavior I don't know but it works for me. Thanks, ddave1 _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
