Robert Hanson wrote:
it had a failed (lost remote connection) yum update on centos 4.x and i am trying to finish...
--> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.8 for package: php-mysql --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.8 is needed by package php-mysql
Most likely it failed somewhere in the middle of updating php packages. Leaving you with inconsistent mix of old and new versions of PHP packages. What you might do is to update php by hand, and then finish the update process using yum.
First get list of currently installed PHP packages:
rpm -qa | grep php
Then download them manually from any CentOS mirror (or simply use the ones from installation media, they'd get updated when you run yum anyhow). If the php package itself is missing, add it (might be it was corrupted or something when update process broke). You'll probably need to force things a bit:
rpm -Uhv --force --nodeps --oldpackage list-of-rpm-files
Replace "list-of-rpm-files" with filenames of RPM packages you are about to reinstall. The "oldpackage" option is needed if you choose to "update" with packages from installation CD-ROM (since those might be the older version then some of allready installed packages).
When done, simply re-run "yum update" to finish.