[CentOS] yum priorities and obsoleting...

John Doe

jdmls at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 10 12:53:35 UTC 2012


Hey,

I ran into a yum conflict regarding an repoforge extra package obsoleting a base package.
The thing is that I set a lower priority to repoforge extra...
Any idea how come I ran into this issue...?

The question is more about the yum priorities than repoforge.


...

1743 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

...
--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl-rrdtool.x86_64 0:1.4.5-1.el6.rfx will be obsoleting
--> Processing Dependency: rrdtool = 1.4.5 for package: perl-rrdtool-1.4.5-1.el6.rfx.x86_64
---> Package rrdtool-perl.x86_64 0:1.3.8-6.el6 will be obsoleted
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: perl-rrdtool-1.4.5-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 (rpmforge-extras)
           Requires: rrdtool = 1.4.5
           Installed: rrdtool-1.3.8-6.el6.x86_64 (@base)
               rrdtool = 1.3.8-6.el6

lua-rrdtool.x86_64                        1.4.7-1.el6.rfx               rpmforge-extras
perl-rrdtool.x86_64                       1.4.5-1.el6.rfx               rpmforge-extras
python-rrdtool.x86_64                     1.4.5-1.el6.rfx               rpmforge-extras
rrdtool-devel.i686                        1.3.8-6.el6                   base    
rrdtool-devel.x86_64                      1.3.8-6.el6                   base    
rrdtool-doc.x86_64                        1.3.8-6.el6                   base    
rrdtool.i686                              1.3.8-6.el6                   base    
rrdtool-perl.x86_64                       1.3.8-6.el6                   @base    
rrdtool-php.x86_64                        1.3.8-6.el6                   base    
rrdtool-python.x86_64                     1.3.8-6.el6                   base    
rrdtool-ruby.x86_64                       1.3.8-6.el6                   base    
rrdtool-tcl.x86_64                        1.3.8-6.el6                   base    
rrdtool.x86_64                            1.3.8-6.el6                   @base   
ruby-rrdtool.x86_64                       1.4.5-1.el6.rfx               rpmforge-extras
tcl-rrdtool.x86_64                        1.4.5-1.el6.rfx               rpmforge-extras


Thx,
JD




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