[CentOS] Broken upgrade to memcached

Mon May 3 19:39:04 UTC 2010
Christoph Maser <cmr at financial.com>

Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 20:38 +0200 schrieb 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?
> <snip>
> > 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.
>
>         mark

Well thats one side of the story, but an implicit "--skip-broken" would
have the same effect, you wouldn't see the update at all.

Chris


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