On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:57:55AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> fredex wrote:
> > A while back I added the pidgin repo to my yum configuration and installed
> > pidgin. it has automatically updated itself a time or two since without
> > trouble.
> >
> > but now that Pidgin 2.1.0 is out, it won't update properly. Yum finds
> > a couple of libpurple packages to update as well as pidgin-devel, but
> > not the pidgin package itself:
> >
> > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> > ---> Package libpurple.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated
> > ---> Package pidgin-devel.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated
> > ---> Package libpurple-devel.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el4 set to be updated
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: pidgin = 2.1.0 for package: pidgin-devel
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: pidgin = 2.1.0 is needed by package pidgin-devel
> >
> > Anybody else seen this? It seems odd that the official pidgin repo
> > would have 3 of the four necessary packages but not the fourth.
>
> Is it possible that the pidgin that you have installed has an epoch > 0.
>
> Also, try:
>
> yum clean all
>
> Then try again, as maybe something is cached in metadata that does not
> show the latest pidgin.
>
> Also, if you have priorities (or protectbase) enabled, you will need to
> use this in the base and updates repo sections of
> /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo to get things to be updateable by 3rd
> Part repos:
>
> exclude=pidgin* libpurple*
>
Thanks, Johnny! The exclude=... statement did the trick. I find it
curious that I haven't needed it before this.
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