RHEL5 WS upgrade issues.

David Miller millerdc at fusion.gat.com
Fri Mar 23 00:07:16 UTC 2007


I have been testing RHEL5 WS doing clean installs and upgrades from  
RHEL4.4. It appears RHEL5 workstation has some issues when doing an  
upgrade from RHEL4.4 WS. I get a lot of missing dependancies when  
running the yum update command. I even installed a clean version of  
RHEL4.4 with everything selected to install. I then upgraded that  
install to RHEL5 WS. Even trying to install individual packages  
fails. Below is the output yum gives me after grabbing updates from RHN.

--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libgfortran = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package:  
gcc-gfortran
--> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: gcc-gnat
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++ = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: gcc-c++
--> Processing Dependency: postgresql-libs = 8.1.4-1.1 for package:  
postgresql-devel
--> Processing Dependency: bind-libs = 30:9.3.3-7.el5 for package:  
bind-devel
--> Processing Dependency: wireshark = 0.99.5-EL4.1 for package:  
wireshark-gnome
--> Processing Dependency: libmudflap = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package:  
libmudflap-devel
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++ = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package:  
libstdc++-devel
--> Processing Dependency: postgresql = 8.1.4-1.1 for package:  
postgresql-devel
--> Processing Dependency: libgcj = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: gcc-java
--> Processing Dependency: libgcj = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: libgcj- 
devel
--> Processing Dependency: postgresql = 8.1.4-1.1 for package:  
postgresql-test
--> Processing Dependency: postgresql = 8.1.4-1.1 for package:  
postgresql-pl
--> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: gcc-objc
--> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: gcc-java
--> Processing Dependency: bind = 30:9.3.3-7.el5 for package: bind- 
chroot
--> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: gcc-c++
--> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: gcc-gfortran
--> Processing Dependency: libobjc = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: gcc-objc
--> Processing Dependency: libgcj = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: libgcj-src
--> Processing Dependency: evolution-data-server = 1.8.0-15.el5 for  
package: evolution-data-server-devel
--> Processing Dependency: libgnat = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: gcc-gnat
--> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 for package: libmudflap- 
devel
--> Processing Dependency: postgresql = 8.1.4-1.1 for package:  
postgresql-server
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libgfortran = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by  
package gcc-gfortran
Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by package  
gcc-gnat
Error: Missing Dependency: libstdc++ = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by  
package gcc-c++
Error: Missing Dependency: postgresql-libs = 8.1.4-1.1 is needed by  
package postgresql-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: bind-libs = 30:9.3.3-7.el5 is needed by  
package bind-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: wireshark = 0.99.5-EL4.1 is needed by  
package wireshark-gnome
Error: Missing Dependency: libmudflap = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by  
package libmudflap-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: libstdc++ = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by  
package libstdc++-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: postgresql = 8.1.4-1.1 is needed by  
package postgresql-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: libgcj = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by package  
gcc-java
Error: Missing Dependency: libgcj = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by package  
libgcj-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: postgresql = 8.1.4-1.1 is needed by  
package postgresql-test
Error: Missing Dependency: postgresql = 8.1.4-1.1 is needed by  
package postgresql-pl
Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by package  
gcc-objc
Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by package  
gcc-java
Error: Missing Dependency: bind = 30:9.3.3-7.el5 is needed by package  
bind-chroot
Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by package  
gcc-c++
Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by package  
gcc-gfortran
Error: Missing Dependency: libobjc = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by  
package gcc-objc
Error: Missing Dependency: libgcj = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by package  
libgcj-src
Error: Missing Dependency: evolution-data-server = 1.8.0-15.el5 is  
needed by package evolution-data-server-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: libgnat = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by  
package gcc-gnat
Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.1.1-52.el5 is needed by package  
libmudflap-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: postgresql = 8.1.4-1.1 is needed by  
package postgresql-server





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