[CentOS] CentOS6 CR repo - depsolving problem

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

On 12/27/2013 05:38 PM, SilverTip257 wrote:
> All,
>
> Has anyone else had a problem with the CR repo on a 6.4 or 6.5 system?
>
> I have a test VM that has the CentOS6 CR repo enabled and it recently (well
> a week or so) started having dependency problems.  It's choking on
> dependencies for ca-cerfificates.  Obviously there aren't any CR packages
> yet for 6.5 so a zero package count and empty directory on the mirror [0]
> are legitimate.  But should the depsolving problems be the expected
> behavior?
>
> [0] http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.5/cr/x86_64/Packages/
>
>
> Up until now, that machine has happily had the CR repo enabled.
> Thanks for any tips and assistance.
>
>
> ~]# yum deplist ca-certificates
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> <...snipped...>
> Finding dependencies:
> package: ca-certificates.noarch 2013.1.95-65.1.el6_5
>    dependency: /bin/bash
>     Unsatisfied dependency
>    dependency: p11-kit-trust >= 0.18.4-2
>     Unsatisfied dependency
>    dependency: /bin/sh
>     Unsatisfied dependency
>    dependency: p11-kit >= 0.18.4-2
>     Unsatisfied dependency
>
>
> ~]# yum repolist enabled
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> <...snipped...>
> repo id            repo name
>   status
> base               CentOS-6 - Base
>      0
> cr                 CentOS-6 - CR
>      0
> epel               Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64
> 10,171
> extras             CentOS-6 - Extras
>     14
> updates            CentOS-6 - Updates
>   286
> repolist: 10,472

it's your base repo that's misconfigured. You have 0 packages whereas I 
have 6367 on a similar system.
Perhaps hard-coded 6.4 in the base repo file?

BTW you should seriously consider using yum priorities since you use 
third party repos (epel).