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Description of problem: With the repos below, this fails: yum install rhevm{,-dwh,-reports} While this works: yum install rhevm{,-dwh,-reports} java-1.7.0 I'd expect yum to be able to find this solution (use java-1.7.0) by itself, without me adding a "hint". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.29-69.el6.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install rhel6 with the below repos 2. yum install rhevm{,-dwh,-reports} 3. Actual results: Fails Expected results: Succeeds Additional info: See above. See also bug 1322528 and bug 1303132. Repos used: [rhel-67] name=RHEL_67 baseurl=http://download.eng.tlv.redhat.com/pub/rhel/released/RHEL-6/6.7/Server/x86_64/os/Server/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [rhel-67-optional] name=RHEL_67_OPTIONAL baseurl=http://download.eng.tlv.redhat.com/pub/rhel/released/RHEL-6/6.7/Server/optional/x86_64/os/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [rhel-67-zstream] name=RHEL_67_Z baseurl=http://download.devel.redhat.com/rel-eng/repos/RHEL-6.7-Z/x86_64/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [rhel-67-suppl] name=RHEL_67_SUPPL baseurl=http://download.devel.redhat.com/released/RHEL-6-Supplementary/6.7/Server/x86_64/os/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [jboss-eap-6.4.Z] name=jboss eap 6.4.Z baseurl=http://download.eng.tlv.redhat.com/pub/rhel/devel/candidates/JBEAP/composing/latest-JBEAP-6.4-RHEL-6/compose/Server/x86_64/os/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [rhev-3.6.5-1] name=RHEV 3.6.5-1 baseurl=http://bob.eng.lab.tlv.redhat.com/builds/3.6/3.6.5-1/el$releasever enabled=1 skip_if_unavailable=1 gpgcheck=0
*** Bug 1322528 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Indeed yum's depsolver doesn't always find a solution where it exists. This will be addressed in dnf where the depsolver has a completely different algorithm. I'm afraid, on RHEL6 we will have to work around this with hints.