[CentOS-devel] yum 2.4.3 updates for CentOS 3 and 4 in the testing repo

[Daniel de Kok]

On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 11:24 -0500, Linux Rockz wrote:
> Daniel de Kok wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 18:52 -0500, Linux Rockz wrote:
> >   
> >> So how did yum get installed without complaining about the missing
> >> python-optik?
> >>     
> >
> > ---
> > # yum update yum
> > [...]
> > I will do the following:
> > [update: yum 2.4.3-4.el3.centos.noarch]
> > I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies:
> > [deps: python-optik 1.4.1-2.noarch]
> > [deps: python-sqlite 1.1.7-1.2.1.i386]
> > [deps: sqlite 3.3.6-2.i386]
> > [deps: python-elementtree 1.2.6-5.el3.centos.i386]
> > [deps: yum-metadata-parser 1.1.0-2.el3.centos.i386]
> > [deps: python-urlgrabber 2.9.8-2.noarch]
> > [deps: centos-yumconf 3-2.noarch]
> > [...]
> > ---
> >
> > Forgive me for asking, but did you install the yum update with "rpm
> > --nodeps"?
> >
> >   
> nope ;)
> Downloaded all the rpms and did rpm -Uvh *.rpm

Hmmm, did it happen to install python2.3 as a dependency? This package
has a provides for python-optik, "blocking" the python-optik package
from CentOS base being installed.

I just filed a bug for this:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2152

-- Daniel