[CentOS] Dependency issues when running yum update

Sun Mar 11 05:14:31 UTC 2012
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 03/10/2012 06:48 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Keith wrote:
>
>> On 11/03/12 02:49, Phil Savoie wrote:
>>> --->  Package xulrunner.i686 0:1.9.2.26-2.el6.centos will be updated
>>> -->  Processing Dependency: libmozjs.so for package:
>>> gxine-0.5.905-1.el6.rf.i686
>>> -->  Finished Dependency Resolution
>>> Error: Package: gxine-0.5.905-1.el6.rf.i686 (@rpmforge)
>>>            Requires: libmozjs.so
>>>            Removing: xulrunner-1.9.2.26-2.el6.centos.i686 (@updates)
>>>                libmozjs.so
>>>            Updated By: xulrunner-10.0.1-2.el6.centos.i686 (updates)
>>>                Not found
>>>            Available: xulrunner-1.9.2.24-2.el6.centos.1.i686 (base)
>>>                libmozjs.so
>>>            Available: xulrunner-1.9.2.26-1.el6.centos.i686 (updates)
>>>                libmozjs.so
>>>   
>> Have you configured Priorities?
>> I've mainly found these sorts of issues to be related with priorities 
>> not configured - may not be your case, but I would double check anyway.
> In this specific case, and while this isn't the RPMforge list, but, anyway, it appears that the update of xulrunner (associated with the new Firefox, I believe) no longer provides some specific library that the rpmforge gxine package depends upon, and thus yum couldn't do the upgrade of xulrunner because the new package doesn't seem to provide that dependency any more. I of course reserve the right to be wrong. 
>
> It's not something that can be fixed by CentOS, it will have to be fixed by rpmforge, as that gxine package will have to be upgraded to use something else that provides libmozjs.so.  (that's where the 'Not found' under the xulrunner 10.0.1 package comes from).

That is how I see it too ... maybe they can just recompile that program
against the new xulrunner.

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