Phil Savoie wrote:

Hello,

Tried yum update all yesterday and today and seems there is a perl dependency missing. Does anyone know if it is a problem or just a sync thing and that I should be more patient. Error is below:

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) >= 2.020 for package: perl-IO-Compress --> Finished Dependency Resolution perl-IO-Compress-2.020-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) >= 2.020 is needed by package perl-IO-Compress-2.020-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) >= 2.020 is needed by package perl-IO-Compress-2.020-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)

please report these perl issues to the rpmforge list, see: http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2009-July/002520.html

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 05:26, Phil Savoiepsavoie1783@rogers.com wrote:

Tried yum update all yesterday and today and seems there is a perl dependency missing.

As pointed out in the rpmforge mailing list, if you are complaining about dependency issues not because you need the specific packages with problems, but because you want to run "yum update" and be able to get the security updates from the other repositories not affected by the issue, and if you are on CentOS 5, you may use the "--skip-broken" option of yum (not available in CentOS 4!) to skip updating packages for which the dependencies are not met.

This is the command you should run in this case: # yum --skip-broken update

HTH, Filipe