[CentOS] yum update problem - dependancy problem

Tue Sep 26 14:32:50 UTC 2017
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

> Am 26.09.2017 um 15:38 schrieb Gary Stainburn <gary at ringways.co.uk>:
> 
> On Tuesday 26 September 2017 14:27:43 Mark Haney wrote:
>> On 09/26/2017 09:23 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
>>> You have a conflicting package installed from repository @atrpms.  You
>>> need to remove that package and/or disable that repository to get past
>>> the dependency issue.  'Skip broken' is not going to handle this
>>> situation nor will any other set of yum options.
>> 
>> Christ, how long as ATRPMs been dead?  I think I stopped using it in
>> 2008/9.
> 
> I don't know. I will have installed then when following instrunctions found 
> online.  I generally check the dates on any web page I use, maybe I missed 
> one.
> 
> Anyway, enabling it again for this box fixed the problem.


Sorry to be pedantic, the symptom is fixed not the problem.

To check which packages are from atrpms try this one:

# rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}-%{VENDOR}\n'  | grep -v CentOS

It will list package name along with the corresponding repo tag.

That list can then be used to plan a package migration.

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LF