[CentOS] yum error

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Fri Apr 14 00:33:55 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 20:17 -0400, Nick Smith wrote:
> Im new to yum, so i really dont know how to fix this problem, i just
> added the dag repos, havent installed anything yet, just wanted to see
> what it was, i did a "yum update" and i get this error:
> 
> [root at mail etc]# yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package syslinux.i386 0:3.11-1.2.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package subversion.i386 0:1.2.1-0.1.2.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package rdesktop.i386 0:1.4.1-0.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package mtr.i386 2:0.71-1.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package iptraf.i386 0:3.0.0-1.2.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package nmap-frontend.i386 2:4.01-2.2.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package python-urlgrabber.noarch 0:2.9.7-1.2.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package spamassassin.i386 0:3.0.5-3.el4 set to be updated
> ---> Package nmap.i386 2:4.01-2.2.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package rsync.i386 0:2.6.7-2.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package lftp.i386 0:3.4.4-1.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package freetype.i386 0:2.1.9-1.2.2.el4.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package python-elementtree.i386 0:1.2.6-6.2.el4.rf set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(String::CRC32) for package: lftp
> --> Processing Dependency: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin = 3.0.2-1 for
> package: spamassassin-tools
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package perl-String-CRC32.i386 0:1.3-1.2.el4.rf set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin = 3.0.2-1 for
> package: spamassassin-tools
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin = 3.0.2-1 is needed
> by package spamassassin-tools
> 
> I do have qmail installed with clamav and SA, and they all seem to be
> working fine, what is the missing Dep and how to I fix this problem?
> yum says its installed:
> 
> [root at mail etc]# yum search perl-Mail-Spam
> Searching Packages:
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 
> 
> perl-Mail-SpamAssassin.i386              3.0.2-1                installed
> Matched from:
> perl-Mail-SpamAssassin
> 
> 
> thanks for the help.

BTW ... you DO NOT want to do a yum update from a third party repo,
(like dag's or any other. for that matter).

That will replace core packages.

Please see the yum docs to prevent problems:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/yum/sn-yum-maintenance.html#sn-yum-plugins
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