[CentOS-devel] yum-3.2.8 for Centos 4 backport, part II.

Thu Jul 23 20:10:25 UTC 2009
Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>


On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Seth Vidal<skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>
>>> I know of at least one issue with yum in CentOS-5. If I try to build
>>> grub in mock, I get:
>>>
>>> No Package Found for /usr/lib/crt1.o
>>> 0:binutils-2.17.50.0.6-9.el5.x86_64
>>> 0:ncurses-devel-5.5-24.20060715.x86_64
>>>
>>> Cannot find build req  /usr/lib/crt1.o. Exiting.
>
>> centos5 has been out for a looooooooooong time now and the yum that's in
>> centos 5.3 has had a number of bugfixes.
>
> Sorry, the above example output was from a CentOS 5.3 system with
> yum-3.2.19-18.el5.  It was generated a few hours ago.  :)
>
>> So is yum 3.X considered bad b/c 3.0.X had some bugs?
>
> No, I did not say that.  However, I will continue to use CentOS-4 for
> running mock for the time being.
>
>> B/c lemme tell you 2.4.X had a good number of bugs, too.
>
> I firmly believe you. :-)
>
>>> This still happens with the current yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch
>>> (and mock-0.6.13-1.el5_2.3.x86_64) in CentOS-5.
>>
>> It looks like it is fixed in yum available for what will be centos
>> 5.4/rhel 5.4.
>>
>> yum 3.2.22 doesn't have it this issue.
>
> I'm not sure why, but I just installed yum-3.2.22-15.el5.noarch (from
> RHEL5.4beta) and mock ended with the same error as above...
>

1. did you clean out the mock cache entirely?
2. I just tested 3.2.22-14 on rhel5 - here's what I get:
  yum resolvedep /usr/lib/crt1.o
  Loaded plugins: security
Importing additional filelist information
0:glibc-devel-2.5-34.i386



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