[CentOS] yum update error - helpful advise please

Fri Feb 17 16:41:14 UTC 2006
Robert Hanson <roberth at abbacomm.net>

greetings

i have a certain production www and email server

when i yum update

[root at 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!

 - rh

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