Description of problem:
The ruby-irb package from RHEL5 has a too-specific version dependency on ruby. This makes it incompatible with the ruby package from EPEL (needed by many EPEL packages), and therefore causes brokenness on systems with EPEL repos enabled.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
ruby-irb.i386 1.8.5-5.el5_4.8
ruby 1.8.5.114-1.fc6



How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add EPEL repo to sources
2. Update system
3. Try to install ruby-irb package
  
Actual results:
root@pmonitor02 ~ # yum install ruby-irb
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, rhnplugin, security
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ruby-irb.i386 0:1.8.5-5.el5_4.8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: ruby = 1.8.5-5.el5_4.8 for package: ruby-irb
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386 from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: ruby = 1.8.5-5.el5_4.8 is needed by package ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: ruby = 1.8.5-5.el5_4.8 is needed by package ruby-irb-1.8.5-5.el5_4.8.i386 (rhel-i386-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



Expected results:
Package is installed (is the specific version in depends really required?)


Additional info:
I couldn't find the ruby-irb package in bugtracker, so I'm filing it against ruby.