Description of problem: I try to update my box and it is stuck during last few weeks because of the following error: Running rpm_check_debug ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: Package cracklib needs python(abi) = 2.4, this is not available. Complete! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cracklib-2.8.9-10.i386 How reproducible: My fedora went through RH8->RH9->FC3->FC4->FC5->FC6->F7. All updates were made with yum - but I guess this is not needed to reproduce the error. It is enough to have cracklib-2.8.9-10.i386 installed and try to update python and its components to 2.5. Seems cracklib-2.8.9-10 has a requirement to have python = 2.4 and not python > 2.3 Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: yum fails with update. Expected results: yum should update all available rpm packages. Additional info: I would raise the severity from low to medium, because all systems that run autoupdate yum scripts will have security problems after a while.
Created attachment 259611 [details] output of "yum -y update" command
Do you somehow have multiple copies of the cracklib package installed? The version in Fedora 7 already used Python 2.5, so I'm thinking that there's an older version that's also installed that hasn't been removed.
Hello, sorry for causing troubles - indeed there was one older version hanging around. root@redhat~# rpm -qa |grep cracklib cracklib-python-2.8.9-10 cracklib-2.8.9-3.1 cracklib-2.8.9-10 cracklib-dicts-2.8.9-10 After removing cracklib-2.8.9-3.1 everything works perfect. Thank you for leading me to the solution. Regards, Z