[Yum] Weirdness with Package Errors

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Sep 30 03:44:06 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 10:05 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> With 2.4.0, I have been getting a lot of these errors lately:
> 
> Error: Requiring package libxml2-python-2.6.21-4.el3 not in transaction 
> set                                   nor in rpmdb
> Error: Requiring package python2.4-devel-2 not in transaction set                                   
> nor in rpmdb
> 
> libxml2-python-2.6.21-4.el3 -> libxml2-devel-2.6.21-3.el3.pyv
> 
> python2.4-devel-2 -> python2.4-devel-2.4-1pydotorg
> 
> There really is another error buried underneath: either the packages 
> conflict or an Obsoletes is not being processed.  In my case, my 
> python24-devel package does not properly Obsolete python2.4-devel.  
> However, because somehow Yum is cutting off the %{release}, it probably 
> cannot determine the actual problems because the cut off package is 
> *not* in the transaction set.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this behavior? I'll try to peel away the layers, but 
> the pattern that I am seeing is that the %{release} is cut off in the 
> wrong way. 

how have you come to the conclusion that yum is cutting off the release
value?

Can you describe the situation in a bit more detail.

-sv





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