Need workaround for yum update problem

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:04 -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I hope everyone is doing well. I have a problem. I am using the 
> "updates-testing" repo. A number of packages in there are ones I find 
> useful. But, over the last few weeks, when I do a yum -y update, it fails 
> with:
> 
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package nfs-utils-lib.i386 0:1.0.8-4.FC5 set to be updated
> ---> Package libgssapi.i386 0:0.9-1.FC5 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: librpcsecgss.so.1 for package: nfs-utils
> --> Processing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 for package: nfs-utils
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: librpcsecgss.so.1 is needed by package 
> nfs-utils
> Error: Missing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 is needed by package nfs-utils
> 
> I tried to do a "yum install libgssapi", but that doesn't work (already 
> installed). If I try to exclude packages, I believe yum will only let me 
> do one. So, if I tell it to ignore nfs-utils lib, then it still fails 
> because it couldn't find libgssapi. If I try to exclude libgssapi, 
> nfs-utils croaks, of course. So...what to do?

Exclude them both:

# yum --enablerepo=updates-testing --exclude=libgssapi
--exclude=nfs-utils-lib update

The nfs-utils-lib and libgssapi updates should be accompanied by an
nfs-utils package built against them. It's the absence of that that's
the problem - your already-installed nfs-utils is linked against
versions of nfs-utils-lib and libgssapi that would be removed by the
updates to those packages.

Paul.