[CentOS] CentOS 6.4 apparent rpm problem
Mark Haney
mark.haney at neonova.net
Fri Sep 15 12:44:29 UTC 2017
Please ignore this, some ignorant cretin here excluded sudo from being
updated. Never in my life will I understand anyone's reason for
excluded THAT particular package.
On 09/15/2017 08:40 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
> Well, after three days of beating my head against my desk, I'm waving
> the white flag. I've got a CentOS 6.4 box (yeah, I know) that I blew
> away the OpenLDAP client and installed the freeipa-client as we're
> transitioning off this terrible OpenLDAP implementation here.
> Everything installed fine, and while I'm still tweaking the ansible
> playbook for completely flushing PAM and OpenLDAP stuff off the box
> (we have more than 100 other C6 boxes to migrate), everything works
> fine with logging in using our IPA credentials.
>
> The only thing that /doesn't/ work is sudo. While debugging it, it was
> suggested (on the FreeIPA list) to update sudo. I've got a C6.4 box
> that I fully updated and sudo works fine on it. Unfortunately, I can't
> update this one fully, so I'm trying to update sudo only. The current
> version on this box is 1.8.6-7.el6.x86_64.
>
> Here's the head scratcher. I cannot, in any fashion get yum to update
> sudo, it says no packages are marked for update. I tried simply
> downloading the RPM and installing and I get this:
>
> [root at secure nnsops]# yum localinstall sudo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
> Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror
> Setting up Local Package Process
> Examining sudo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.x86_64.rpm: sudo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.x86_64
> Nothing to do
>
> A couple of people on the IPA list suggested explictly using the 6.9
> repo URL. Nothing. So, I ran a yum update to see what packages would
> update and sudo isn't one of them. I've rebuilt the RPM database with
> no change in result. I'm completely at a loss here, and I've been
> using RPM and Yum for two decades.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
>
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Mark Haney
Network Engineer at NeoNova
919-460-3330 option 1
mark.haney at neonova.net
www.neonova.net
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