On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 17:24 -0400, Brian Long wrote: > I have a workstation with the following HP-provided RPMs: > > net-snmp-cmaX-5.1 (provides net-snmp as well) > net-snmp-cmaX-devel-5.1 > net-snmp-cmaX-utils-5.1 > > I have an RPM foo that obsoletes net-snmp <= 5.0.9 (the stock RHEL 3 > version). For some reason, when I run "yum install foo", I get the > following dependency errors: > > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: libnetsnmp.so.5 for package: ethereal > --> Processing Dependency: net-snmp >= 5.0 for package: ethereal > --> Processing Dependency: libsnmp.so.5 for package: hpoj > --> Processing Dependency: libnetsnmp.so.5 for package: ethereal-gnome > --> Processing Dependency: net-snmp for package: hpoj > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > Error: Missing Dependency: libnetsnmp.so.5 is needed by package ethereal > Error: Missing Dependency: net-snmp >= 5.0 is needed by package ethereal > Error: Missing Dependency: libsnmp.so.5 is needed by package hpoj > Error: Missing Dependency: libnetsnmp.so.5 is needed by package > ethereal-gnome > Error: Missing Dependency: net-snmp is needed by package hpoj > > net-snmp-cmaX is installed and provides all 5 of the above dependencies. > Also, my obsoletes specifically mentions net-snmp <= 5.0.9. Why is it > trying to remove net-snmp-cmaX-5.1? could you run rpm -q --provides net-snmp-cmaX thanks -sv
