[Yum-devel] Depsolving problem with yum/yum-metadata-parser

Charlie Brady charlieb-yum-devel at budge.apana.org.au
Wed Aug 6 22:02:29 UTC 2008


Yum is complainging about a missing dependency, for a package I am not 
even upgrading:

[root at li32-157 ~]# yum  -v --nogpgcheck --enablerepo=sme-media  upgrade > 
/tmp/xx
Error: Missing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser >= 1.1.0 is needed by 
package yum
[root at li32-157 ~]#

But the dependency is already satisfied:

[root at li32-157 ~]# rpm -q yum yum-metadata-parser
yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5
[root at li32-157 ~]#

Here is the verbose log concerning yum-metadata-parser (which repeats 6 
times in total):

...
Checking deps for yum-metadata-parser.i386 0-1.1.2-2.el5 - None
yum requires: yum-metadata-parser >= 1.1.0
--> Processing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser >= 1.1.0 for package: yum
Potential Provider: yum-metadata-parser.i386 0:1.1.2-2.el5
Mode is u for provider of yum-metadata-parser >= 1.1.0: 
yum-metadata-parser.i386 0:1.1.2-2.el5
Mode for pkg providing yum-metadata-parser >= 1.1.0: u
Cannot find an update path for dep for: yum-metadata-parser >= 1.1.0
Searching pkgSack for dep: yum-metadata-parser
Potential match for yum-metadata-parser from yum-metadata-parser - 
1.1.2-2.el5.i386
Matched yum-metadata-parser - 1.1.2-2.el5.i386 to require for 
yum-metadata-parser
yum-metadata-parser - 1.1.2-2.el5.i386 is in providing packages but it is 
already installed, removing.
...

I've tried with yum 3.2.17 - problem persists.




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