[CentOS] Broken upgrade to memcached

Mon May 3 18:38:21 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Chris wrote:
> Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:20 +0200 schrieb m.roth at 5-cent.us:
>> Chris wrote:
>> > Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:07 +0200 schrieb m.roth at 5-cent.us:
>> >> Yum checkupdate tells me I should update memcached, that the x86_64
>> >> 1.4.5-1.el5 needs an update, I go to do that, and it complains that
>> >> it's missing a dependency of libevent-1.4.so.2 (this is all 64 bit,
>> >> CentOS 5.4).
>> >>
>> >> Clues... or is this actually broken?
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> This is a long story iirc dag had quite an argument with the yum
> developers about that. Some people say yum is broken others say the repo
> is broken. Its a matter of opinons. You propably want --skip-broken.

I would have to agree with the repo being misconfigured. If I'm on 5.4,
and look for updates to 5.4, it should *not* tell me that one package
needs updating, but that, and an unnoted dependency, are both actually
5.5.

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