On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:57:55AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > fredex wrote: > > A while back I added the pidgin repo to my yum configuration and installed > > pidgin. it has automatically updated itself a time or two since without > > trouble. > > > > but now that Pidgin 2.1.0 is out, it won't update properly. Yum finds > > a couple of libpurple packages to update as well as pidgin-devel, but > > not the pidgin package itself: > > > > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > > ---> Package libpurple.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated > > ---> Package pidgin-devel.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated > > ---> Package libpurple-devel.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated > > --> Running transaction check > > --> Processing Dependency: pidgin = 2.1.0 for package: pidgin-devel > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > > Error: Missing Dependency: pidgin = 2.1.0 is needed by package pidgin-devel > > > > Anybody else seen this? It seems odd that the official pidgin repo > > would have 3 of the four necessary packages but not the fourth. > > Is it possible that the pidgin that you have installed has an epoch > 0. > > Also, try: > > yum clean all > > Then try again, as maybe something is cached in metadata that does not > show the latest pidgin. > > Also, if you have priorities (or protectbase) enabled, you will need to > use this in the base and updates repo sections of > /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo to get things to be updateable by 3rd > Part repos: > > exclude=pidgin* libpurple* > Thanks, Johnny! The exclude=... statement did the trick. I find it curious that I haven't needed it before this. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070804/f82a314a/attachment-0004.sig>