yum update fails, looking for "libpq.so.3"
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Apr 13 22:50:05 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:47 -0400, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:39:48PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Michael Weiner wrote:
> >
> > > i get EXACTLY the same behavior, so you are not going insane :)
> >
> > as a quick fix (for now), i just "yum remove"d postgresql-libs and let
> > yum deal with the dependencies on libpq.so.3. it's updating as we
> > speak, and i'll worry about putting the postgresql stuff back in
> > tomorrow. no big deal. sorry, i didn't mean to start such an
> > animated discussion.
>
> I did something like this:
>
> yum -y --exclude='postgresql*' --exclude='libdbi*' --exclude='*php*'
> --exclude='dovecot' update
>
> which passed the transaction check and started running the
> transaction, but then yum tracebacked:
>
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install 4 Package(s)
> Update 183 Package(s)
> Remove 0 Package(s)
> Total download size: 677 M
> Downloading Packages:
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ?
> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 149, in main
> base.doTransaction()
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 651, in doTransaction
> self.runTransaction(cb=cb)
> File "__init__.py", line 333, in runTransaction
> NameError: global name 'yum' is not defined
Need to know what those packages are that are being updated.
-sv
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