On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 08:41 -0800, Robert Hanson wrote:

greetings

i have a certain production www and email server

when i yum update

[root@tst ~]# yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package spamassassin.i386 0:3.0.4-1.el4 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin = 3.0.2-1 for package: spamassassin-tools --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin = 3.0.2-1 is needed by package spamassassin-tools

i get this and it dies of course...

now, i have an decent idea of one way to approach dealing with this yet i wanted to seek the wisdom on the list so that i do not hose the machine "unnecessarily"

what does the error mean or tell you experts and....

thanks in advance for advise, different approaches, and pointers!

Does this machine have non-standard Spamassassin RPMS installed on it?

(The obvious answer is yes, since we don't have spamassassin-tools OR perl-Mail-SpamAssassin in CentOS)

I would exempt spamassassin from the update process (add it to the exclude= in /etc/yum.conf), or remove the 3rd party version and use the version from CentOS.