On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command "yum update".
--> Processing Dependency: clamav-db = 0.92.1-1.el4.rf for package: clamav --> Processing Dependency: clamav-lib = 0.88.2-2.el4.kb for package: clamav-server --> Processing Dependency: libclamav.so.1 for package: clamav-server --> Processing Dependency: clamd = 0.92.1-1.el4.rf for package: clamav-milter --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package clamav-lib.i386 0:0.88.2-2.el4.kb set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: clamav-db = 0.92.1-1.el4.rf for package: clamav --> Processing Dependency: clamd = 0.92.1-1.el4.rf for package: clamav-milter --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: clamav-db = 0.92.1-1.el4.rf is needed by package clamav Error: Missing Dependency: clamd = 0.92.1-1.el4.rf is needed by package clamav-milter
As you can see in the last two lines, clamav-db and clamd appear to be missing, but I assure you, clamav-milter and clamav as well as the database are here, and running quite well. I even went so far as to do an erase of both, and both times, yum shows them as being installed. Of course I did not erase them, but if it finds them to be installed, why does it say they are missing during an update attempt?
I'm off the digest currently, so I can more quickly respond with further info if needed.
Okay. Take a look at clamav-db = 0.92.1-1.el4.rf for package: clamav then look at clamav-lib = 0.88.2-2.el4.kb for package: clamav-server
One is from the kbs repo, and one is from rpmforge. Mostly, you're mixing similar packages from different repositories. This is a bad thing, and the reason for the existence of priorities, and protectbase plugins, as well as include/exclude statements on a per repository basis.