[Yum] yum tries to install too many packages

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 08:35 -0700, John Lee wrote:
> I have a user running Red Hat ES3 U5 and when he tried to run "yum
> install iptraf" (using version yum 2.0.8) it tried to install and
> update additional FIFTY+ packages siting dependency issues.
>  
> It didn't seem right so we tried just manually installing the iptraf
> RPM (rpm -Uvh) and it installed fine without any dependency issues.
>  
> Again, this is a RedHat ES3 machine installing from a CentOS3-i386
> RPMforge repository, using the old yum-arch (headers.info) format for
> metafiles.
>  
> Has anyone experienced this?  And know why this is happening?  Tried
> running 'yum install iptraf' on RedHat ES4 machines and it worked fine
> without asking me to install additional 50+ packages...
>  


can you show the depsolving output?

-sv