[Yum] yum tries to install too many packages

[John Lee]

I can't seem to duplicate the error anymore....it works all of a sudden =0

[root at server root]# rpm -qa | grep iptraf
iptraf-3.0.0-1.1.el3.rf

[root at server root]# rpm -e iptraf
warning: /var/run/iptraf/iptraf-processcount.dat saved as 
/var/run/iptraf/iptraf-processcount.dat.rpmsave

[root at server root]# yum install iptraf
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: CentOS-3 - Addons
Server: CentOS-3 - Base
Server: CentOS-3 - Contrib
Server: CentOS-3 - Extras
Server: CentOS-3 - Contrib
Server: CentOS-3 - Contrib
Server: CentOS-3 - Update
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[install: iptraf 3.0.0-1.1.el3.rf.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages
Getting iptraf-3.0.0-1.1.el3.rf.i386.rpm
iptraf-3.0.0-1.1.el3.rf.i 100% |=========================| 552 kB    00:00
Running test transaction:
Test transaction complete, Success!
iptraf 100 % done 1/1
Installed:  iptraf 3.0.0-1.1.el3.rf.i386
Transaction(s) Complete


Sorry about that...

J

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "seth vidal" <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
To: "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" <yum at lists.dulug.duke.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Yum] yum tries to install too many packages


>
> 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
>
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