i fired up a vm i haven't used in ages, it was centos 6.1, so I ran yum update -y, and it bombed on package conflicts with matahari and qpid-something... I had no need for matahari (heck, I don't even know what it is), so I removed matahari-* and the yum update succeeded, but shouldn't yum update be able to update ANY centos 6 to latest ? this system has NO extra repos, just CentOS-Base etc.
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.3 (Section 4. Major Changes)
Matahari is now obsoleted, but in 6.1, had a dependency on qpid-cpp-server and qpid-cpp-client which wanted updates. A quick Google shows many others seeing this problem. I think if you run yum with the --obsoletes flag you may get more information. IMHO you need a human to decide when/if to remove the obsoleted packages and proceed with the update.
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