[CentOS] yum update failure, dependancy issues for yum

[Daniel de Kok]

On Fri, June 1, 2007 5:30 am, Devraj Mukherjee wrote:
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for file to pack into transaction set.
> file-4.10-3.0.2.el4.i386. 100% |=========================| 9.8 kB    00:00
> ---> Package file.i386 0:4.10-3.0.2.el4 set to be updated
> ---> Downloading header for up2date to pack into transaction set.
> up2date-4.5.5-6.el4.cento 100% |=========================|  45 kB    00:00
> ---> Package up2date.i386 0:4.5.5-6.el4.centos set to be updated
> ---> Package yum-utils.noarch 0:0.5-2.el4.centos set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: yum < 2.5 for package: yum-utils
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package yum.noarch 0:2.4.3-3.el4.centos set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: yum >= 2.6.2 for package: yum-metadata-parser
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: yum >= 2.6.2 is needed by package
> yum-metadata-parser

You are trying to replace CentOS base components with different versions
from other repositories. Please read up the CentOS Wiki pages about
repositories, and the priorities and protectbase plugins.

-- Daniel