I've just been trying to do a "yum update" on a Centos 4.6 system, and one of the packages it wants to upgrade is heartbeat-ldirectord from 2.1.2-3 to 2.1.3-2

However, the newer version has dependency problems that can't be resolved:

[root@miton2 ~]# yum update Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "protectbase" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Reading repository metadata in from local files 0 packages excluded due to repository protections Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.9-67.0.4.EL set to be installed ---> Package kernel-smp-devel.i686 0:2.6.9-67.0.4.EL set to be installed ---> Package kernel-smp.i686 0:2.6.9-67.0.4.EL set to be installed ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.9-67.0.4.EL set to be installed ---> Package heartbeat-stonith.i386 0:2.1.3-2.el4.centos set to be updated ---> Package heartbeat.i386 0:2.1.3-2.el4.centos set to be updated ---> Package heartbeat-pils.i386 0:2.1.3-2.el4.centos set to be updated ---> Package heartbeat-ldirectord.i386 0:2.1.3-2.el4.centos set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: perl-ldap for package: heartbeat-ldirectord --> Processing Dependency: PyXML for package: heartbeat --> Processing Dependency: perl-libnet for package: heartbeat-ldirectord --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package PyXML.i386 0:0.8.3-6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: perl-ldap for package: heartbeat-ldirectord --> Processing Dependency: perl-libnet for package: heartbeat-ldirectord --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: perl-ldap is needed by package heartbeat-ldirectord Error: Missing Dependency: perl-libnet is needed by package heartbeat-ldirectord [root@miton2 ~]# uname -a Linux miton2 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 16:01:12 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@miton2 ~]# cat /etc/issue CentOS release 4.6 (Final) Kernel \r on an \m

[root@miton2 ~]#

Looking in Google, it appears that this problem has occurred before in previous releases of CentOS 4, although heartbeat-ldirectord-2.1.2-3 doesn't have the problem.

Is this a bug in upstream too? How to fix?

Cheers Tony