bizarre yum behaviour

[Bernd Radinger]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:27:34 -0400, Trevor Smith <trevor at haligonian.com> wrote:
> As you can see, newpg and libksba are installed on my system:
> 
> [root at laptop trevor]# rpm -q libksba
> libksba-0.4.7-0.fdr.1.2
> [root at laptop trevor]# rpm -q newpg
> newpg-0.9.4-0.fdr.2.2
> 
> I can not update newpg via yum because it is the latest version:
> 
> [root at laptop trevor]# yum update newpg
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> [...]

why did you cut the output here? which servers did you use?

> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> newpg is installed and the latest version.
> No actions to take
> 
> And I can not update libksba for an undecipherable (to me) reason:
> 
> [root at laptop trevor]# yum update libksba
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> [...]
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> .Package newpg needs libksba.so.0, this is not available.

# rpm -qf /usr/lib/libksba.so.0
libksba-0.4.7-0.fdr.1.2
# rpm -q newpg
newpg-0.9.4-0.fdr.2.2

> But I can not update ANYTHING with "yum update" anymore because every time it
> tests dependencies, I get the same error as above:
> 
> .Package newpg needs libksba.so.0, this is not available.
> 
> What can this mean? How can I solve it so that yum update works for me again?
> 

you may need to erase both packages if you try to upgrade to a newer
and incompatible libksba.

-- 
Bernd