Bug 710202

What does the following say:

rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Unsatisfied dependencies for mpitests_mvapich_intel-3.2-923.x86_64: libimf.so()(64bit)
Unsatisfied dependencies for mpitests_openmpi_intel-3.2-923.x86_64: libimf.so()(64bit)

Ok, if you solve the pre-existing rpmdb problems yum should not get confused anymore.

Installed package rpm -i intel-icc9-libs-9.0-025.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest returns back blank.
Still getting problem:
================================================================================
 Package         Arch       Version            Repository                  Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 libibumad       i386       1.3.3-1.el5        rhel-x86_64-server-5        55 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)
Upgrade       0 Package(s)

Total size: 55 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
libibumad.so.3 is needed by (installed) libibmad-1.3.6-1.i686
libibumad.so.3 is needed by (installed) opensm-libs-3.3.7_MLNX-1.i686
libibumad.so.3 is needed by (installed) libibumad-devel-1.3.6-1.i686
libibumad.so.3(IBUMAD_1.0) is needed by (installed) libibmad-1.3.6-1.i686
libibumad.so.3(IBUMAD_1.0) is needed by (installed) opensm-libs-3.3.7_MLNX-1.i686
Complete!
(1, [u'Please report this error in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux%205&component=yum'])

What does:

yum list libibumad

...say?

 I think I see what the problem is, you have:

libibmad-1.3.6-1.i686 (installed)
libibmad-1.3.3-1.el5.i386 (available)

...and yum/rpm are getting confused about the arch change, and the downgrade. If you really want to downgrade, you might be able to do:

yum shell
remove  libibmad
install libibmad.i386
run

...or just fix the repos. you are using so that it's not as confusing.

What I really want is install latest packages from RedHat.

Here is an original problem:
 yum update srptools
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping security plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package srptools.x86_64 0:0.0.4-8.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libibumad.so.2(IBUMAD_1.0)(64bit) for package: srptools
--> Processing Dependency: libibumad.so.2()(64bit) for package: srptools
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
srptools-0.0.4-8.el5.x86_64 from rhel-x86_64-server-5 has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libibumad.so.2(IBUMAD_1.0)(64bit) is needed by package srptools-0.0.4-8.el5.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-5)
srptools-0.0.4-8.el5.x86_64 from rhel-x86_64-server-5 has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libibumad.so.2()(64bit) is needed by package srptools-0.0.4-8.el5.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: libibumad.so.2(IBUMAD_1.0)(64bit) is needed by package srptools-0.0.4-8.el5.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: libibumad.so.2()(64bit) is needed by package srptools-0.0.4-8.el5.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-5)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

What you really want then is distro-sync, but that isn't in the RHEL-5 yum.

You could just do a 2 stage "reinstall", where you run:

yum remove libibumad

...and then install it from the RHEL repo.

Back porting distro-sync isn't going to happen, sorry. You can use RHEL-6 or the unofficial yum backport from RHEL-6 (check my private repos. on fedoraproject).

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