Today's Dep Isues

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Wed Aug 25 14:47:04 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 09:34 -0400, M Galvin wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I finally had the time to get fc3t1 setup and up2date. It took almost a 
> full day to get all the updates installed but I must say that it went 
> fairly well for such an early release stage.
> 
> Anyway, this is the dep problem i ran into this morning.
> 
> ...
> 
> Test install failed because of package conflicts:
> file /usr/share/man/man5/resolver.5.gz from install of man-pages-1.67-2 
> conflicts with file from package
> bind-utils-9.2.4-EL4_1
> 
> ...
> 
> This happens when bind is updated BEFORE the man pages. Is there a way i 
> can just force the man page rpm install since this is just a 
> documentation update?
> 

My ugly work-around was:

cd /var/cache/yum/development/packages/
rpm -Uvh --nodeps bind-utils-9.2.4-EL4_1.i386.rpm man-pages-1.67-2.noarch.rpm

After that "yum upgrade" ran OK, except for numerous xml parser warnings.

Phil






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