[CentOS] dependency error with xerces.c ???

[Johnny Hughes]

On 12/13/2011 06:58 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> Quoting Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>:
> 
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>> On 12/13/2011 02:36 PM, ken wrote:
>>> On 12/13/2011 02:30 PM Lucian wrote:
>>>> On 13 December 2011 19:17, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote:
>>>>> # yum update
>>>>> ...
>>>>> --> Running transaction check
>>>>> --> Processing Dependency: libxerces-c.so.27 for package: phc
>>>>> ---> Package xerces-c.i386 0:2.8.0-1.el5.centos set to be updated
>>>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>>> phc-0.1.7-1.el5.rf.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
>>>>>   --> Missing Dependency: libxerces-c.so.27 is needed by package
>>>>> phc-0.1.7-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed)
>>>>> Error: Missing Dependency: libxerces-c.so.27 is needed by package
>>>>> phc-0.1.7-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed)
>>>>>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>>>>  You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
>>>>>                         package-cleanup --dupes
>>>>>                         rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>>>>> # locate libxerces
>>>>> /usr/lib/libxerces-c.so.27
>>>>> /usr/lib/libxerces-c.so.27.0
>>>>> /usr/lib/libxerces-depdom.so.27
>>>>> /usr/lib/libxerces-depdom.so.27.0
>>>>> # rpm -qa|grep xerces
>>>>> xerces-c-2.7.0-8.el5
>>>>> xerces-j2-2.7.1-7jpp.2.el5_4.2
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How to resolve this?
>>>>
>>>> You should ask this on repoforge/rpmforge mailing lists..
>>>
>>> Thanks, Lucien.  This package is from the extras repo.  Does that make a
>>> difference?
>>>
>>> Also, I understand what you're saying.  But (and this is not to you in
>>> particular, rather to "the system") rather than having to join yet
>>> another mailing list just to report a problem... and then send an email
>>> to everyone on that list, why couldn't the package give an email address
>>> like bugs@[whatever_repo] to send a report to.
>>
>> The package you are having a problem with has a .rf in the name ... that
>> means it is a package from the repoforge repo.
>>
>> You might make sure the rpms are installed properly so that the rpm
>> database knows it exists (and it is not orphaned at the location).  What
>> does this return:
>>
>> rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/libxerces-c.so.27
>>
>> also, download the file xerces-c-2.8.0-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm what does
>> this say:
>>
>> rpm -qpl xerces-c-2.8.0-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm
>>
>> It would seem that xerces-c-2.8.0-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm is going to
>> upgrade the library to /usr/lib/libxerces-c.so.28 to me.
>>
>> This is going to cause an issue with that repoforge package.  You can
>> use exclude= for the extras repo, ask repoforge to rebuild the package
>> against the new version, or probably force install the rpm and symlink
>> /usr/lib/libxerces-c.so.28 to /usr/lib/libxerces-c.so.27 and see if it
>> works.
>>
>>
> I'm getting this too, without the .rf
> 
> like this:
> 
> # yum update xerces-c
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: mirror.nic.uoregon.edu
>  * epel: www.muug.mb.ca
>  * extras: www.muug.mb.ca
>  * updates: centosq2.centos.org
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libxerces-c.so.27 for package: gdal
> ---> Package xerces-c.i386 0:2.8.0-1.el5.centos set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> gdal-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: libxerces-c.so.27 is needed by package
> gdal-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libxerces-c.so.27 is needed by package
> gdal-1.4.2-4.el5.i386 (installed)
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
>                         package-cleanup --dupes
>                         rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> and
> 
> # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/libxerces-c.so.27
> xerces-c-2.7.0-8.el5

OK ... let me look at fixing it now :D


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