Jim Perrin wrote:
you're right. I forgot to remove atrpms test. Note that I never do a general yum update. So my system should not be totally wrecked.
Except that it only takes one 'yum install' from ATrpms to replace a couple of important core packages or install one thats incompatible with upstream, thus causing your dilemma. Also note that if you never do a yum update, then you're missing several important updates. If you are indeed on 3.3 like you said earlier, then you're a little over a year out of date. There have been several important bugs fixed, and a couple critical ones which could potentially leave your system open to intruders. It may not be wrecked from installed packages, but negligence instead. Is there a reason to not perform basic upgrade tasks like 'yum update' (aside from the obvious now where it won't work)?
Ok, I'll be watching close.
But you did not explain why the rpm dependency was failing: Is it a yum bug?
.......Unable to satisfy dependencies Package rpm-libs needs rpm = 4.2.3-24_nonptl, this is not available. # rpm -q rpm rpm-4.2.3-10 # ls /var/cache/yum/base/headers/rpm-0* rpm-0-4.2.3-21_nonptl.i386.hdr rpm-0-4.2.3-24_nonptl.i386.hdr