I have an interesting chicken-and-egg problem that I hope someone can help me
out of.
I have a machine on which I originally loaded White Box. I subsequenty
converted to CentOS using the instructions found numerous times in the group
-- e.g. get the redhat-package RPM (thus changing /etc/redhat-release), then
configuring yum and then yum -y upgrade.
Everything has been going fine... that is until I tried installing the
rpm-build package. Now I'm getting the message:
[root@intranet root]# yum install rpm-build
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: CentOS-3.3 - Addons
Server: CentOS-3.3 - Base
Server: CentOS-3.3 - Extras
Server: CentOS-3.3 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
....Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package rpm-build needs rpm = 4.2.3-10, this is not available.
Which I assume is caused by my version of rpm: rpm-4.2.3-10.WB1
I can't seem to figure out how to convert RPM packages and, of course, I can't
simly rpm -e rpm and then use the erased package to install itself. I've
tried a simple yum --download-only ... but the dependency check still
occurs.
Any thoughts on what to try next?
TIA,
Barry
