[CentOS] yum confusion...

Thu Feb 3 10:05:23 UTC 2011
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>
> Du you have a priority=XX  in rpmforge.repo  ?

I have no priority in rpmforge.repo...

From: Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

> I  can guess that the rcp_weappers-libs and -devel are not being masked. 
> Try  running yum with a -d7 and see if it clears up what is going on

...
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
Checking deps for tcp_wrappers.x86_64 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - None
1:nfs-utils-1.0.9-47.el5_5.x86_64 requires: tcp_wrappers
--> Processing Dependency: tcp_wrappers for package: nfs-utils
Potential Provider: tcp_wrappers.x86_64 0:7.6-40.7.el5
Mode is u for provider of tcp_wrappers: tcp_wrappers.x86_64 0:7.6-40.7.el5
Mode for pkg providing tcp_wrappers: u
Cannot find an update path for dep for: tcp_wrappers
Searching pkgSack for dep: tcp_wrappers
Potential match for tcp_wrappers from tcp_wrappers-7.6-40.7.el5.x86_64
Matched tcp_wrappers-7.6-40.7.el5.x86_64 to require for tcp_wrappers
Potential match for tcp_wrappers from tcp_wrappers-7.6-40.7.el5.i386
Matched tcp_wrappers-7.6-40.7.el5.i386 to require for tcp_wrappers
tcp_wrappers-7.6-40.7.el5.x86_64 is in providing packages but it is already 
installed, removing.
Package: tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6-57.el5.rfx.x86_64  - already in transaction set
Package: tcp_wrappers-devel-7.6-57.el5.rfx.x86_64  - already in transaction set
TSINFO: Marking tcp_wrappers-7.6-40.7.el5.i386 as install for 
1:nfs-utils-1.0.9-47.el5_5.x86_64
---> Package tcp_wrappers-devel.x86_64 0:7.6-57.el5.rfx set to be updated
Checking deps for tcp_wrappers-devel.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
looking for ('tcp_wrappers-libs', 'EQ', ('0', '7.6', '57.el5.rfx')) as a 
requirement of tcp_wrappers-devel.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
looking for ('libwrap.so.0()(64bit)', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement 
of tcp_wrappers-devel.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
---> Package tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0:7.6-57.el5.rfx set to be updated
Checking deps for tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
looking for ('libnsl.so.1(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)', None, (None, None, None)) as a 
requirement of tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
looking for ('libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit)', None, (None, None, None)) as a 
requirement of tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
looking for ('libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)', None, (None, None, None)) as a 
requirement of tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
looking for ('libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)', None, (None, None, None)) as a 
requirement of tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
looking for ('rtld(GNU_HASH)', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement of 
tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
looking for ('libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit)', None, (None, None, None)) as a 
requirement of tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
looking for ('/sbin/ldconfig', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement of 
tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
looking for ('libnsl.so.1()(64bit)', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement 
of tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
looking for ('libc.so.6()(64bit)', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement of 
tcp_wrappers-libs.x86_64 0-7.6-57.el5.rfx - u
--> Running transaction check
---> Package tcp_wrappers.i386 0:7.6-40.7.el5 set to be updated
Checking deps for tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
looking for ('libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)', None, (None, None, None)) as a 
requirement of tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
looking for ('libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement 
of tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
looking for ('libc.so.6', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement of 
tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
looking for ('/sbin/ldconfig', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement of 
tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
looking for ('libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement 
of tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
looking for ('rtld(GNU_HASH)', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement of 
tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
looking for ('libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)', None, (None, None, None)) as a 
requirement of tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
looking for ('libnsl.so.1', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement of 
tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
looking for ('libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement 
of tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
looking for ('libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)', None, (None, None, None)) as a requirement 
of tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
looking for ('libnsl.so.1(GLIBC_2.0)', None, (None, None, None)) as a 
requirement of tcp_wrappers.i386 0-7.6-40.7.el5 - u
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependency Process ending
Depsolve time: 0.975

Dependencies Resolved

====================================================================================================

 Package                     Arch            Version                 
Repository                Size
====================================================================================================

Installing:
 tcp_wrappers-devel          x86_64          7.6-57.el5.rfx          
rpmforge-extras          8.7 k
     replacing  tcp_wrappers.x86_64 7.6-40.7.el5

 tcp_wrappers-libs           x86_64          7.6-57.el5.rfx          
rpmforge-extras           88 k
     replacing  tcp_wrappers.x86_64 7.6-40.7.el5

Installing for dependencies:
 tcp_wrappers                i386            7.6-40.7.el5            
base                     109 k

Transaction Summary
====================================================================================================

Install       3 Package(s)
Upgrade       0 Package(s)


So apparently priorities would still let through some updates?
I did deactivate priorities once just to update subversion with rpmforge-extra 
1.6 version...

# yum list | grep installed | grep '\.rf'
compat-libevent-11a.x86_64                 3.2.1-1.el5.rf              installed
djvulibre.x86_64                           3.5.22-1.el5.rf             installed
exiv2.x86_64                               0.20-1.el5.rf               installed
fping.x86_64                               2.4-1.b2.3.el5.rf           installed
gsm.i386                                   1.0.13-1.el5.rf             installed
jasper.x86_64                              1.900.1-2.el5.rf            installed
lame.x86_64                                3.98.4-1.el5.rf             installed
libmhash.x86_64                            0.9.1-1.2.el5.rf            installed
libmhash-devel.x86_64                      0.9.1-1.2.el5.rf            installed
memcached.x86_64                           1.4.5-1.el5.rf              installed
nagios-nrpe.x86_64                         2.12-1.el5.rf               installed
nagios-plugins.x86_64                      1.4.15-2.el5.rf             installed
perl-AnyEvent.noarch                       5.240-1.el5.rf              installed
perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2.x86_64             2.031-1.el5.rf              installed
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib.x86_64              2.030-1.el5.rf              installed
perl-Crypt-DES.x86_64                      2.05-3.2.el5.rf             installed
perl-EV.x86_64                             3.9-1.el5.rf                installed
perl-Guard.x86_64                          1.021-1.el5.rf              installed
perl-IO-Compress.noarch                    2.030-2.el5.rfx             installed
perl-JSON.noarch                           2.17-1.el5.rf               installed
perl-JSON-XS.x86_64                        2.27-1.el5.rf               installed
perl-Net-SNMP.noarch                       5.2.0-1.2.el5.rf            installed
perl-Net-SSLeay.x86_64                     1.36-1.el5.rfx              installed
perl-TermReadKey.x86_64                    2.30-3.el5.rf               installed
perl-YAML.noarch                           0.71-1.el5.rf               installed
perl-common-sense.x86_64                   3.0-1.el5.rf                installed
rpmforge-release.x86_64                    0.5.2-2.el5.rf              installed
subversion.x86_64                          1.6.15-0.1.el5.rfx          installed
xdg-utils.noarch                           1.0.2-2.el5.rf              installed


Thx,
JD