[CentOS] CentOS 8: several packages have unresolved dependencies after "dnf update all "

Thu Jan 16 12:23:52 UTC 2020
Philippe Piot <piot at nicadd.niu.edu>

Thanks, Stephen. Just for completeness, the repo I am currently pointing to
are

[piot at paris opal]$ sudo dnf update
CentOS-8 - AppStream
                  775 kB/s | 5.8 MB     00:07
CentOS-8 - Base
                        798 kB/s | 4.0 MB     00:05
CentOS-8 - Extras
                        2.9 kB/s | 2.1 kB     00:00
CentOS-8 - PowerTools
                   686 kB/s | 2.0 MB     00:02
ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el8
59 kB/s |  93 kB     00:01
ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Kernel Repository - el8         437
kB/s | 971 kB     00:02
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64
 11 kB/s |  10 kB     00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64
       768 kB/s | 5.2 MB     00:06
google-chrome
                           13 kB/s | 3.5 kB     00:00
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

Philippe Piot,
https://www.niu.edu/advanced-accelerator-randd/
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Northern Illinois University, Dept of Physics and
Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator & Detector Development
DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
Tel: 815 753 6473, Web:  http://www.physics.niu.edu/physics/

Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Photon Source
Accelerator System Division
Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Tel: 630 252 2415, Web:
https://www.aps.anl.gov/Accelerator-Systems-Division


On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:04 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 23:29, Philippe Piot <piot at nicadd.niu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >   While updating my package using dnf update all I allow dnf to clean
> some
> > package with unresolved dependencies.
> >   I would like to reinstall some of them but got an error message "but
> none
> > of the providers can be installed" during the install process as dnf is
> > trying to install the dependencies.
> >
>
> I think your system is getting mixed mirrors or something. Some of the
> packages you are looking for are from CentOS-8.0.1905 and some seem to
> be CentOS-8.1.1911. I am not sure what is causing that at the moment,
> but I put a list of the versions I found in the mirror which should be
> available.
>
> >   This happens for some critical package like boost-openmpi-devel (see
> > below for error). In fact the following package were removed and cannot
> be
> > installed:
> >   annobin-8.64-1.el8.x86_64
> > glibc-headers-2.28-42.el8.1.x86_64
> >   libdrm-devel-2.4.96-2.el8.x86_64
> >  boost-devel-1.66.0-6.el8.x86_64
> >   boost-openmpi-devel-1.66.0-6.el8.x86_64
> > boost-static-1.66.0-6.el8.x86_64
> >   gcc-8.2.1-3.5.el8.x86_64
> >  gcc-c++-8.2.1-3.5.el8.x86_64
> >   gcc-gdb-plugin-8.2.1-3.5.el8.x86_64
> > gcc-gfortran-8.2.1-3.5.el8.x86_64
>
> The 8.1 versions and trees they should be in are
>
> ./AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/annobin-8.78-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/boost-devel-1.66.0-6.el8.i686.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/boost-devel-1.66.0-6.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/gcc-8.3.1-4.5.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/gcc-gdb-plugin-8.3.1-4.5.el8.i686.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/gcc-gdb-plugin-8.3.1-4.5.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/libdrm-devel-2.4.98-2.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/libdrm-devel-2.4.98-2.el8.i686.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/annobin-8.78-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/boost-devel-1.66.0-6.el8.i686.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/boost-devel-1.66.0-6.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/gcc-gdb-plugin-8.3.1-4.5.el8.i686.rpm
>
> ./AppStream/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/gcc-gdb-plugin-8.3.1-4.5.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/gcc-8.3.1-4.5.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/libdrm-devel-2.4.98-2.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./AppStream/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/libdrm-devel-2.4.98-2.el8.i686.rpm
> ./BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/glibc-headers-2.28-72.el8.i686.rpm
> ./BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/glibc-headers-2.28-72.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/libgcc-8.3.1-4.5.el8.i686.rpm
> ./BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/libgcc-8.3.1-4.5.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/glibc-headers-2.28-72.el8.i686.rpm
> ./BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/glibc-headers-2.28-72.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/libgcc-8.3.1-4.5.el8.i686.rpm
> ./BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/libgcc-8.3.1-4.5.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./PowerTools/x86_64/os/Packages/boost-static-1.66.0-6.el8.i686.rpm
> ./PowerTools/x86_64/os/Packages/boost-static-1.66.0-6.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./PowerTools/x86_64/os/Packages/boost-openmpi-devel-1.66.0-6.el8.i686.rpm
> ./PowerTools/x86_64/os/Packages/boost-openmpi-devel-1.66.0-6.el8.x86_64.rpm
>
> ./PowerTools/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/boost-openmpi-devel-1.66.0-6.el8.i686.rpm
>
> ./PowerTools/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/boost-openmpi-devel-1.66.0-6.el8.x86_64.rpm
> ./PowerTools/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/boost-static-1.66.0-6.el8.i686.rpm
> ./PowerTools/x86_64/kickstart/Packages/boost-static-1.66.0-6.el8.x86_64.rpm
>
> Since boost is not showing up I am guessing Powertools got turned off.
>
>
>
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen.
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