yum - problem with dependencies

From: Timothy Murphy (tim_at_birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie)
Date: 03/19/05

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    I was trying to "yum update" on a machine which had not been updated
    for some time, and I came across the following puzzling problem.

    When I ran "yum update" I was told that a more recent version of db4
    was required than can be found in the core or update repositories.
    The reason for this is that my repositories are "infected" by
    rawhide rpm's which I installed at some time in the past.

    In any case, I ran "yum --enablerepo=development install db4"
    and this duly installed db4-4.3.so and related files.

    However, when I ran "yum update" again,
    I still got the same dependency errors:
    =======================================
    --> Running transaction check
    --> Processing Dependency: libdb-4.3.so for package: kdesdk
    --> Processing Dependency: db4 >= 4.3 for package: openoffice.org
    --> Processing Dependency: libdb-4.3.so for package: db4-utils
    --> Processing Dependency: db4 = 4.3.27-2 for package: db4-devel
    --> Processing Dependency: libdb_cxx-4.3.so for package: openoffice.org-libs
    --> Processing Dependency: libdb-4.3.so for package: apr-util
    --> Processing Dependency: libdb-4.3.so for package: httpd
    --> Processing Dependency: db4 = 4.3.27-2 for package: db4-utils
    --> Processing Dependency: libdb-4.3.so for package: perl
    --> Processing Dependency: libdb-4.3.so for package: sendmail
    --> Processing Dependency: libdb-4.3.so for package: python
    --> Finished Dependency Resolution
    Error: missing dep: libdb-4.3.so for pkg kdesdk
    Error: missing dep: db4 >= 4.3 for pkg openoffice.org
    Error: missing dep: libdb-4.3.so for pkg db4-utils
    Error: missing dep: db4 = 4.3.27-2 for pkg db4-devel
    Error: missing dep: libdb_cxx-4.3.so for pkg openoffice.org-libs
    Error: missing dep: libdb-4.3.so for pkg apr-util
    Error: missing dep: libdb-4.3.so for pkg httpd
    Error: missing dep: db4 = 4.3.27-2 for pkg db4-utils
    Error: missing dep: libdb-4.3.so for pkg perl
    Error: missing dep: libdb-4.3.so for pkg sendmail
    Error: missing dep: libdb-4.3.so for pkg python
    =======================================

    What baffles me is that these library files _are_present,
    having been supplied by the db4 rpm:
    =======================================
    [tim@william ~]$ locate libdb-4.3
    /usr/lib/libdb-4.3.so
    /usr/lib/libdb-4.3.a
    /usr/lib/libdb-4.3.la
    /usr/lib/tls/i486/libdb-4.3.so
    /usr/lib/tls/i586/libdb-4.3.so
    /usr/lib/tls/i686/libdb-4.3.so
    /lib/libdb-4.3.so
    /lib/tls/i486/libdb-4.3.so
    /lib/tls/i586/libdb-4.3.so
    /lib/tls/i686/libdb-4.3.so
    ==========================================
    and both /usr/lib/libdb-4.3.so and /lib/libdb-4.3.so
    come from the db4 rpm, as "rpm -ql db4" shows.

    I ran ldconfig in case that was the problem,
    but this did not improve matters.

    Can anyone throw light on this mystery?

    -
    Timothy Murphy
    e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
    tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
    s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland 

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