[CentOS] Concerned 3 im clients were installed as dependencies.

[Kwan Lowe]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Christoph Maser<cmr at financial.com> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:21 +0200 schrieb Rob Townley:

>> Did anybody else notice the install of im clients on practically
>> headless non-gui systems?
>> Any explanation?
>
> We observed something similar. On some systems automatic update
> installed kernel-xen-devel on some of our systems. Seems like the yum
> repository metadata was broken at some point in time.
>

Last night I had a similar issue. yum kept on trying to pull in an
older kernel-devel package even after deleting the corresponding
kernel. If I disabled kernel packages, it returned an error about
python. Running a "yum clean all" cleared it up.