On 12/12/2011 07:44 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > 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'. > Output after "repair" recommended by you: rpm -qa perl\* | sort perl-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Archive-Tar-1.58-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Bit-Vector-7.1-2.el6.x86_64 perl-Cairo-1.062-1.el6.x86_64 perl-Carp-Clan-6.03-2.el6.noarch perl-CGI-3.51-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.037-1.el6.rf.x86_64 perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.037-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum-0.04-8.1.el6.x86_64 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Random-0.04-9.1.el6.x86_64 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA-0.25-10.1.el6.x86_64 perl-Date-Calc-6.3-2.el6.noarch perl-Date-Manip-5.54-4.el6.noarch perl-DBD-MySQL-4.013-3.el6.x86_64 perl-DBI-1.609-4.el6.x86_64 perl-devel-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-22.el6.noarch perl-Digest-SHA1-2.12-2.el6.x86_64 perl-Digest-SHA-5.47-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Encode-Detect-1.01-2.el6.x86_64 perl-Error-0.17015-4.el6.noarch perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.55-119.el6.x86_64 perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.2003.0-119.el6.x86_64 perl-File-Find-Rule-0.30-9.el6.noarch perl-gettext-1.05-16.el6.x86_64 perl-Git-1.7.1-2.el6_0.1.noarch perl-Glib-1.223-1.el6.x86_64 perl-Gtk2-1.223-2.el6.x86_64 perl-HTML-Parser-3.64-2.el6.x86_64 perl-HTML-Tagset-3.20-4.el6.noarch perl-IO-Compress-2.037-1.el6.rfx.noarch perl-IO-Socket-INET6-2.56-4.el6.noarch perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.31-2.el6.noarch perl-IO-Zlib-1.09-119.el6.x86_64 perl-libs-5.10.1-119.el6.x86_64 perl-libwww-perl-5.833-2.el6.noarch perl-Mail-DKIM-0.37-2.el6.noarch perl-MailTools-2.04-4.el6.noarch perl-Module-Pluggable-3.90-119.el6.x86_64 perl-NetAddr-IP-4.027-3.el6.x86_64 perl-Net-DNS-0.65-2.el6.x86_64 perl-Net-LibIDN-0.12-3.el6.x86_64 perl-Net-SSLeay-1.35-9.el6.x86_64 perl-Net-Whois-1.9-1.2.el6.rf.noarch perl-Net-Whois-IP-1.04-1.el6.rf.noarch perl-Net-XWhois-0.90-1.2.el6.rf.noarch perl-Number-Compare-0.01-13.el6.noarch perl-Package-Constants-0.02-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Pango-1.221-2.el6.x86_64 perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Pod-Simple-3.13-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Socket6-0.23-3.el6.x86_64 perl-Test-Harness-3.17-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Test-Simple-0.92-119.el6.x86_64 perl-Text-Glob-0.08-7.el6.noarch perl-TimeDate-1.16-11.1.el6.noarch perl-Time-HiRes-1.9721-119.el6.x86_64 perl-URI-1.40-2.el6.noarch perl-version-0.77-119.el6.x86_64 > 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 > Yes, it completed, thanks. I have the following repos: adobe-linux-i386.repo _local.repo CentOS-Base.repo mirrors-rpmforge CentOS-CR.repo mirrors-rpmforge-extras CentOS-Debuginfo.repo mirrors-rpmforge-testing CentOS-Media.repo rpmforge.repo epel.repo rpmfusion-free-updates.repo epel-testing.repo rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo google-chrome.repo rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo To avoid similar problems in the future, can you give me some guidelines for priority settings? It seems I got it wrong somewhere :-) Thanks Anne -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or Http://forum.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20111213/39edf9b2/attachment-0004.sig>