[CentOS] yum fails on resolving dependencies
Dag Wieers
dag at wieers.com
Wed Jul 19 14:12:25 UTC 2006
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Henk van Lingen wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 04:34:51PM -0700, Steven Vishoot wrote:
>
> > yum update
> > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > Server: CentOS-3 - Addons
> > Server: CentOS-3 - Base
> > Server: Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise
> > Linux
> > Server: CentOS-3 - Extras
> > Server: CentOS-3 - Updates
> > Finding updated packages
> > Downloading needed headers
> > Resolving dependencies
> > ....Unable to satisfy dependencies
> > Package perl-Authen-SASL needs perl(GSSAPI), this is
> > not available.
>
> I think it's a dependency bug in the RPMforge repo (Dag) and it's there
> for months. I posted the RPMforge list about it two weeks ago. No
> reactions.
>
> I've added a "exclude=perl-Net-LDAP perl-Authen-SASL" line to yum.conf
It is actually a bug in Yum. It should not bail out on a dependency
problem.
Kind regards,
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
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