[CentOS] screwed up dependencies

Wed Nov 11 15:15:09 UTC 2009
fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 05:35:52AM -0600, Lee Perez wrote:
> ken wrote:
> > On 11/11/2009 02:26 AM Timo Schoeler wrote:
> >   
> >> thus ken spake:
> >> | Subsequent to trying to "yum update"-- it failed--, I tried to resolve
> >> | the dependencies piecemeal:
> >> |
> >> | # yum update faad2
> >> | ....
> >> | --> Processing Dependency: libfaad.so.0 for package: ffmpeg
> >> | ---> Package faad2.i386 0:2.7-1.el5.rf set to be updated
> >> | --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> >> | ffmpeg-0.5-2.el5.rf.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
> >> |   --> Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0 is needed by package
> >> | ffmpeg-0.5-2.el5.rf.i386 (installed)
> >> | Error: Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0 is needed by package
> >> | ffmpeg-0.5-2.el5.rf.i386 (installed)
> >> | ....
> >> |
> >> | # rpm -q ffmpeg
> >> | ffmpeg-0.5-2.el5.rf
> >> |
> >> | Could it be that there's a packaging error in faad2 ?
> >>

I saw the same errors, waited a day or so and they went away, so it must
have been a stale mirror.

> >> For the archives: This seems to be fixed; I updated three systems since
> >> then and everything went flawlessly.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>
> >> Timo
> >>     
> >
> > Timo,
> >
> > Thanks for replying.
> >
> > I found that, ultimately, I had to remove xine* and its dependencies in
> > order to successfully "yum update".  After the update, I get dependency
> > errors again (with libdirect-1.0.so.0, libdirectfb-1.0.so.0, and
> > libfusion-1.0.so.0) when I try to add xine back in.  Are you running
> > xine on any of your systems?
> >
> >
> >   
> Hi Ken,
> 
> I'm running 5.4 here on my system and I have xine installed.  I just 
> updated faad2 and everything went fine here.  Here is a list of what was 
> updated:
> 
> Nov 11 05:08:24 Updated: faad2-2.7-1.el5.rf.i386
> Nov 11 05:08:26 Updated: ffmpeg-0.5-3.el5.rf.i386
> Nov 11 05:08:30 Updated: xine-lib-1.1.16.3-2.el5.rf.i386
> Nov 11 05:08:50 Updated: vlc-0.9.9a-4.el5.rf.i386
> 
> Also I went and checked in /usr/lib and the libdirect, libdirectfb, and 
> libfusion version I have installed are:
> 
> libdirect-1.2.so.0      libdirectfb-1.2.so.0
> libdirect-1.2.so.0.4.0  libdirectfb-1.2.so.0.4.0
> libfusion-1.2.so.0  libfusion-1.2.so.0.4.0
> 
> I don't have any other repos setup except for rpmforge and priorities 
> are setup.\
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Lee Perez
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