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

Thu Jul 30 22:27:40 UTC 2009
Christoph Maser <cmr at financial.com>

Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:21 +0200 schrieb Rob Townley:
> Worried, ran yum -y update expecting to get the bind update but am
> concerned as to why the following instant messaging packages were
> installed as dependencies.  All of the following are instant messaging
> related except cyrus-sasl.
>
> Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.22-4.i386
> Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: meanwhile-1.0.2-5.el5.i386
> Jul 30 17:00:50 Installed: libsilc-1.0.2-2.fc6.i386
> Jul 30 17:00:54 Installed: libpurple-2.5.5-3.el5.i386
> Jul 30 17:00:58 Installed: libpurple-perl-2.5.5-3.el5.i386
>
> 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.

Chris


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