On 12/12/11 18:47, Anne Wilson wrote: > For a while now I've been seeing skipped-package notices, which I don't really > understand. I know it's a version mis-match, but all my attempts to sort it > out have failed, so I need help, please. The current state is > > Skipping filters plugin, no data > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package perl-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 0:2.020-119.el6 will be obsoleted > ---> Package perl-IO-Compress.noarch 0:2.037-1.el6.rfx will be obsoleting > --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.037 for package: > perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch > ---> Package perl-IO-Compress-Base.x86_64 0:2.020-119.el6 will be obsoleted > ---> Package perl-IO-Compress-Zlib.x86_64 0:2.020-119.el6 will be obsoleted > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > > Packages skipped because of dependency problems: > perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch from rpmforge-extras > > Can someone please tell me what needs erasing/installing/updating to get this > cleaned up? > > Thanks > > Anne It might be helpful to show the output from 'rpm -qa perl\* | sort'. As to the reason for the above error... it looks like you have the protect or priority plugins stopping rpmforge-extras packages from updating base components? Try: yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=rpmforge-extras update perl-IO-Compress which should remove the following if installed: perl-Compress-Zlib perl-IO-Compress-Base perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 perl-IO-Compress-Zlib and install/update the following: perl-IO-Compress perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib HTHs