[CentOS] yum is dumb in update of gmime & gmime-sharp

[William Hooper]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:12 PM, William Hooper <whooperhsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:00 PM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote:
>>> You need to take a closer look at what yum is trying to install.  This
>>> message is telling you yum won't update the package because it will
>>> break a dependency on another installed package.
>>
>> yum's trying to install gmime20.  This doesn't exist on my system.
>>
>> What dependency would break by installing it?
>
> Looking at the RPMForge spec file for gmime20, it obsoletes any gmime lower that it's version. You are trying to install gmime20.i386 0:2.2.26-1.el5.rf, which will remove gmime-2.2.10-5.el5.centos. However, your currently installed gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5.el5.centos requires gmime-2.2.10-5.el5.centos. You need to either remove gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5.el5.centos or find an updated version that will work with gmime20.i386 0:2.2.26-1.el5.rf.

I thought this seemed familiar:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2010-March/092358.html


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William Hooper