[CentOS] CentOS 6.4 apparent rpm problem

Fri Sep 15 12:40:52 UTC 2017
Mark Haney <mark.haney at neonova.net>

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?


-- 
Mark Haney
Network Engineer at NeoNova
919-460-3330 option 1
mark.haney at neonova.net
www.neonova.net