[CentOS] yum fails on resolving dependencies

Wed Jul 19 14:12:25 UTC 2006
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Henk van Lingen wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 04:34:51PM -0700, Steven Vishoot wrote:
> 
>   >  yum update
>   > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>   > Server: CentOS-3 - Addons
>   > Server: CentOS-3 - Base
>   > Server: Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise
>   > Linux
>   > Server: CentOS-3 - Extras
>   > Server: CentOS-3 - Updates
>   > Finding updated packages
>   > Downloading needed headers
>   > Resolving dependencies
>   > ....Unable to satisfy dependencies
>   > Package perl-Authen-SASL needs perl(GSSAPI), this is
>   > not available.
> 
>   I think it's a dependency bug in the RPMforge repo (Dag) and it's there
>   for months. I posted the RPMforge list about it two weeks ago. No
>   reactions.
> 
>   I've added a "exclude=perl-Net-LDAP perl-Authen-SASL" line to yum.conf

It is actually a bug in Yum. It should not bail out on a dependency 
problem.

Kind regards,
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