Hi
Trying to apply all available updates to CentOS 5 and the following is observed
# yum update Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, rhnplugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check
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--> Running transaction check ---> Package unixODBC-libs.i386 0:2.2.11-10.el5 set to be updated ---> Package unixODBC-libs.x86_64 0:2.2.11-10.el5 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: /bin/tar for package: redhat-lsb --> Processing Dependency: /bin/tar for package: redhat-lsb --> Finished Dependency Resolution redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: /bin/tar is needed by package redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.x86_64 (installed) redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: /bin/tar is needed by package redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.i386 (installed) --> Running transaction check ---> Package kernel-xen.x86_64 0:2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 set to be erased ---> Package kernel-xen-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 set to be erased --> Processing Dependency: /bin/tar for package: redhat-lsb --> Processing Dependency: /bin/tar for package: redhat-lsb --> Finished Dependency Resolution redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: /bin/tar is needed by package redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.x86_64 (installed) redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: /bin/tar is needed by package redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /bin/tar is needed by package redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /bin/tar is needed by package redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.x86_64 (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
so trying to just update tar
# yum update tar Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, rhnplugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package tar.x86_64 2:1.15.1-32.el5_8 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: /bin/tar for package: redhat-lsb --> Processing Dependency: /bin/tar for package: redhat-lsb --> Finished Dependency Resolution redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: /bin/tar is needed by package redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.x86_64 (installed) redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: /bin/tar is needed by package redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /bin/tar is needed by package redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /bin/tar is needed by package redhat-lsb-4.0-2.1.4.el5.x86_64 (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
but interestingly if i yum locainstall the tar package and then yum update it all works fine - seems very odd and possibly a broken yum package as rpm works OK ?
anyone seen this?
thanks