Need workaround for yum update problem

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Paul Howarth wrote:

>> 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.

Yep, and this has been that way for a few weeks. I should file a 
bugzillalalalla entry for it. In any case, it worked. Thank you for your 
help! --exclude did the trick for the individual ones. I didn't know the 
syntax allowed that; I thought it only let you exclude one set of 
packages.

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