Yum weirdness

Dan Burcaw yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Sep 1 15:05:04 2003


Also fixed. Give the mirrors a chance to catch up. though.

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 14:51, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Today I tried to run "yum update", but it didn't succeed.
> 
> Apparently there is an update available for ddd (new 3.3.7-1, installed
> 3.3.1-19)
> 
> While checking for dependencies, yum exits with the following error message:
> 
> .package ddd needs libelf.so.1 (not provided)
> 
> 
> When I check my system, libelf.so.1 indeed is not available (I have
> libelf.so.0.8.2).
> 
> So I try to update libelf via yum, guess what: yum return with
> libelf is installed and the latest version.
> 
> 
> So what's going on here ? Is this a packaging error at Terra Soft ? Or
> is yum corrupted ? Or am I missing some yum repositories (I have base
> and updates in my yum.conf) ?
> 
> Hope someone sheds some light on this.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Geert
> 
> 
> 
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