[ydl-gen] broken yum.conf causes bind to fail to install

[Kai Staats]

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Subject: Re: I need to vent.
Date: Tuesday 17 April 2007 09:27
From: Owen Stampflee <ostampflee at terrasoftsolutions.com>
To: kstaats at terrasoftsolutions.com
Cc: zefie <rkuchiki at gmail.com>

This is very odd, I didn't see it when I did my upgrade testing so I
tried a yum install bind\* and here was my results:

Installing:
 bind-chroot             ppc        30:9.3.3-0.2.rc2  updates            36 k
 bind-devel              ppc        30:9.3.3-0.2.rc2  updates           2.5 M
 bind-libbind-devel      ppc        30:9.3.3-0.2.rc2  updates           461 k
 bind-sdb                ppc        30:9.3.3-0.2.rc2  updates           243 k
 caching-nameserver      ppc        30:9.3.3-0.2.rc2  updates            53 k
     replacing  bind-config.ppc 30:9.3.2-20.FC5

Updating:
 bind                    ppc        30:9.3.3-0.2.rc2  updates           985 k
 bind-libs               ppc        30:9.3.3-0.2.rc2  updates           902 k
 bind-utils              ppc        30:9.3.3-0.2.rc2  updates           178 k


  Updating  : bind-libs                    ####################### [ 1/12]
  Updating  : bind                         ####################### [ 2/12]
  Updating  : bind-utils                   ####################### [ 3/12]
  Installing: bind-chroot                  ####################### [ 4/12]
  Installing: caching-nameserver           ####################### [ 5/12]
  Installing: bind-libbind-devel           ####################### [ 6/12]
  Installing: bind-devel                   ####################### [ 7/12]
  Installing: bind-sdb                     ####################### [ 8/12]
  Cleanup   : bind-libs                    ####################### [ 9/12]
  Removing  : bind-config                  ####################### [10/12]
  Cleanup   : bind                         ####################### [11/12]
  Cleanup   : bind-utils                   ####################### [12/12]

You can see yum removing bind-config and replacing it with
caching-nameserver. Why this works for me and not you I'm not sure of,
can you show me your yum.conf? I'm guessing it doesn't have the
obsoletes=1 line.

Kai, can you post a note on the website about the fact that line is
required? I saw a similar issue posted on yellowdog-board and the lack
of obsoletes=1 would explain both issues.

Cheers,
Owen


> > Resolving Dependencies
> > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> > ---> Package bind-config.ppc 30:9.3.2-20.FC5 set to be updated
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: bind = 30:9.3.2-20.FC5 for package:
> > bind-config --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: bind = 30:9.3.2-20.FC5 is needed by package
> > bind-config