Bug 61878

Summary:	up2date unable to resolve dependencies.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Nick Booth <nbooth>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	cturner, gafton, mihai.ibanescu, pjones, srevivo, taw
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Description Nick Booth 2002-03-25 14:52:39 UTC

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Description of problem:
hia I am trying to get my linux box to update to the latest version of rpm 
(amoung other things) I get the error message below. how do I work arround this 
problem and get the thing to install. 

up2date --update

Retrieving list of all available packages...
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Removing installed packages from list of updates...
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Removing packages marked to skip from list...
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Getting headers for available packages...
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Removing packages with files marked to skip from list...
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Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
There was a package dependency problem.  The message was:

==Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
perl-Perl-RPM  0.291-2                   requires librpm.so.0
perl-Perl-RPM  0.291-2                   requires librpmio.so.0

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run up2date --update on my box.
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  up2date --update

Retrieving list of all available packages...
########################################
########################################

Removing installed packages from list of updates...
########################################

Removing packages marked to skip from list...
########################################

Getting headers for available packages...
########################################

Removing packages with files marked to skip from list...
########################################

Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
There was a package dependency problem.  The message was:

==Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
perl-Perl-RPM  0.291-2                   requires librpm.so.0
perl-Perl-RPM  0.291-2                   requires librpmio.so.0



Expected Results:  update working.

Additional info:

I belive there is a security update waiting to be installed.

Comment 1 David M. Cook 2002-03-27 21:51:26 UTC

The perl-Perl-RPM package has been renamed to rpm-perl.
Try removing the perl-Perl-RPM package and proceeding with your update:

rpm -e perl-Perl-RPM
up2date -u

and then if you want rpm-perl:

up2date rpm-perl

Comment 2 Nick Booth 2002-03-28 09:53:47 UTC

thnaks this seems to have fixed the problem phaps it would be good to document 
this some where on the Errata Page.

thanks

Nick