Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-13 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Tom, On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 17:12 +0100, Tom Brown wrote: To close the loop on this by making the 32 bit tar package available to the system during the update allowed the update to progress as it got pulled in as a dep during the yum run and all was happy. I suppose my idea that this

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-12 Thread Tom Brown
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumDB shame thats not actually available in CentOS 5 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-12 Thread Tom Brown
# yum update Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, rhnplugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check snip --- Package tar.x86_64 2:1.15.1-32.el5_8 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: /bin/tar

[CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Trying to apply all available updates to CentOS 5 and the following is observed # yum update Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, rhnplugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check snip -- Running

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/11/2012 06:21 AM, Tom Brown wrote: Hi Trying to apply all available updates to CentOS 5 and the following is observed # yum update Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, rhnplugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom Brown
The issue seems to be that the package tar was somehow removed from your system. When you tried to update, the system saw that the package tar was removed from the system and that it was required by the already installed package redhat-lsb. This means that somehow, someone removed the

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/11/2012 07:17 AM, Tom Brown wrote: The issue seems to be that the package tar was somehow removed from your system. When you tried to update, the system saw that the package tar was removed from the system and that it was required by the already installed package redhat-lsb. This

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom Brown
Somehow it is NOT in the rpm database ... that is why yum thinks it is not there. This could also happen accidentally with multilib installs (it looks like you do have this possible issue). When a system is installed in c5, the default behavior is that both i386 and x86_64 packages are

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom Brown
from memory i have not deliberately removed the i386 package, but you are right it is not there, however rpm does seem to know about /bin/tar # rpm -ql tar /bin/gtar /bin/tar snip although i agree its something rpm db related as reinstalling tar via rpm rather than yum solves the

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: snip When adding packages, Yum can do two things ... install or update ... and it does each differently. snip of much-appreciated explanation of how yum install/update/localinstall works The problem all along is that someone did a force removal of tar (at least from the

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Tom, On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:23 +0100, Tom Brown wrote: from memory i have not deliberately removed the i386 package, but you are right it is not there, however rpm does seem to know about /bin/tar # rpm -ql tar /bin/gtar /bin/tar snip although i agree its something rpm db

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom Brown
rm /bin/tar will remove the binary but not update the rpmdb. rpm -V {package} to verify the package installation. well yes - but tar is not removed, that is the point, its something to do with rpm thinking its not there when in fact it is ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Tom, On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 15:48 +0100, Tom Brown wrote: well yes - but tar is not removed, that is the point, I guess I'll have to take your word for it as there is nothing in what you mention that verifies this statement. rpm -ql tar will not verify that any files are actually there,

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom Brown
I guess I'll have to take your word for it as there is nothing in what you mention that verifies this statement. rpm -ql tar will not verify that any files are actually there, just that they got installed at some point. Did you verify /bin/tar was actually there before you did the yum

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/11/2012 09:32 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: snip When adding packages, Yum can do two things ... install or update ... and it does each differently. snip of much-appreciated explanation of how yum install/update/localinstall works The problem all along is that

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-11 Thread Olaf Mueller
Ron Blizzard wrote: Hello. Missing Dependency: libavcodec.so.51 is needed by package transcode-1.0.5-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed) Missing Dependency: libx264.so.55 is needed by package transcode-1.0.5-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed) Ask in the rpmforge list. This has nothing to do with CentOS repo.

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-11 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Olaf Muellerdaily-pla...@istari.de wrote: Ron Blizzard wrote: Hello. Missing Dependency: libavcodec.so.51 is needed by package transcode-1.0.5-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed) Missing Dependency: libx264.so.55 is needed by package transcode-1.0.5-1.el5.rf.i386

[CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
I come to you hat in hand again. For the first time in a long while I got a Update Notification at the bottom of my screen -- so I decided to click on it and run the update. Unfortunately I got a couple dependency errors and am not sure how to solve them. (Not even sure why I got them.) They are

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
I should also mention that I added (a few days ago) the M Harris repository so that I could install Firefox 3.5. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread MHR
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: I should also mention that I added (a few days ago) the M Harris repository so that I could install Firefox 3.5. I ran an update for my rpmforge stuff this morning and saw the same thing. Anyone here have a clue? I'm

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:12 PM, MHRmhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: I should also mention that I added (a few days ago) the M Harris repository so that I could install Firefox 3.5. I ran an update for my rpmforge stuff this

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread MHR
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: A few days ago, I think someone mentioned that they were doing something at RPMForge. I'm guessing this is part of it -- this is is an old Pentium III that I've got CentOS 4.7 on, and I tried to do an update (haven't

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM, MHRmhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: A few days ago, I think someone mentioned that they were doing something at RPMForge. I'm guessing this is part of it -- this is is an old Pentium III that

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Saturday 04 April 2009, John Hinton wrote: I seem to be able to get all of the 5.x update except for the kernel. Each attempt results in this... (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-128. 100% |=| 15 MB 00:16

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-04-04 Thread Frank Thommen
John Hinton wrote: I seem to be able to get all of the 5.x update except for the kernel. Each attempt results in this... (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-128. 100% |=| 15 MB 00:16 http://centos.mirror.nac.net/5.3/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm:

[CentOS] Update Issue

2009-04-03 Thread John Hinton
I seem to be able to get all of the 5.x update except for the kernel. Each attempt results in this... (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-128. 100% |=| 15 MB 00:16 http://centos.mirror.nac.net/5.3/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm: [Errno -1] Package does

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-04-03 Thread nate
John Hinton wrote: Error Downloading Packages: kernel - 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686: failure: RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Is this just me? I've tried at different times from different machines and it seems that all other files are

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-04-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
nate wrote: John Hinton wrote: Error Downloading Packages: kernel - 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686: failure: RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Is this just me? I've tried at different times from different machines and it seems that all