On 01/28/2013 08:00 AM, John Doe wrote:

Ah ah, the demo effect... just after I said I did not have much issues with repos... ^_^ A collegue installed some packages (for perconna) and since then a server insists on replacing 2 base packages with 2 rfx packages, even when I gave a lower priority to rfx...

Installed: perl-IO-Compress-Base-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 Installed: 1:perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 Installed: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 Installed: perl-Compress-Zlib-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 Installed: perl-HTML-Tagset-3.20-4.el6.noarch Installed: perl-HTML-Parser-3.64-2.el6.x86_64 Installed: perl-libwww-perl-5.833-2.el6.noarch Installed: perl-Params-Validate-0.92-3.el6.x86_64 Installed: perl-Log-Dispatch-2.26-1.el6.rf.noarch Installed: perl-Parallel-ForkManager-0.7.5-2.2.el6.rf.noarch Installed: 4:perl-Time-HiRes-1.9721-127.el6.x86_64 Installed: perl-Config-Tiny-2.12-7.1.el6.noarch

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rpmforge | 1.9 kB 00:00 rpmforge-extras | 1.9 kB 00:00 1913 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package perl-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 0:2.020-127.el6 will be obsoleted ---> Package perl-IO-Compress.noarch 0:2.037-1.el6.rfx will be obsoleting --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Bzip2) = 2.037 for package: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.037 for package: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch ---> Package perl-IO-Compress-Base.x86_64 0:2.020-127.el6 will be obsoleted ---> Package perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 0:2.020-127.el6 will be obsoleted --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch (rpmforge-extras) Requires: perl(Compress::Raw::Bzip2) = 2.037 Available: perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 (base) perl(Compress::Raw::Bzip2) = 2.020 Error: Package: perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch (rpmforge-extras) Requires: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.037 Installed: 1:perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.020-127.el6.x86_64 (@base) perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.020 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

Is it a yum/priority bug or a repoforge bug?

I suspect it might be due to the new fedora release? Doesn't priority also blocks obsoleted/obsoleting packages...? I did a clean all...

It isn't really a bug, an obsolete causes the one package to be removed, then another package is replacing it. Since they have different names, the restrictions in priorities do not apply (it does when they have the same name). You will have to exclude perl-IO-Compress from the rfx repo ... or if perl-IO-Compress for rfx is a real requirement for a package you want to install, you will have to exclude perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 and perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib from Base so those can also be pulled in from rfx.