On Tuesday 05 January 2010 16:50:26 Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > For some time now, my CentOS box has been skipping the update of exiv2.
> > Yesterday I decided to do something about it, so I removed gwenview,
> > digikam, exiv2 and libexiv2.  I then reinstalled gwenview and digikam,
> > which of course pulled in the two exiv2 packages.  The version of exiv2
> > looked surprisingly familiar, but I assumed that the install would pull
> > in the latest, so I shouldn't worry.  This morning more updates were
> > announced, and I found that once again exiv2 was being skipped.
> >
> > I have put a diagnostic file onto http://filebin.ca/swaoqf/centos2.txt -
> > I hope someone here will be able to tell me what is going wrong and what
> > I can do about it.  Thanks
> 
> I haven't checked your log file but I'm guessing you have both rpmforge
> and epel active...
I do.

> digikam is not in rpmforge, I suspect you're getting it from epel along
> with the exiv2 dep, which is perhaps a lower version than the rpmforge
> exiv2?

The installed version is 

exiv2.i386                         0.17.1-1.el5.rf

and the update version on offer is 

exiv2.i386                         0.19-1.el5.rf

They look to me as though they would be from the same repo.

> In this case skipping the newer rpmforge exiv2 when updating is expected
> and normal (assuming digikam requires the older epel exiv2).
> 
> 
> Please take this as constructive criticism: you should really try to
> post relevant info in your emails, eg you don't even state what centos
> version 

Fair comment - when you've been wrestling with something for some time, 
including posting on a distro list, it's too easy to forget that not 
everything relevant has been said in the initial post here.  FWIW, the CentOS 
version is, I think, 5.4.  If you want detailed information on digikam and 
gwenview packages I'll follow up with those.

> you use, much less the various exiv2/digikam/whatever versions
> you're talking about - which would have been good enough to tell us what
> repo a package comes from, as long as the repo respects users and
> community members enough to use a repotag. You would certainly get more
> useful answers, people don't like to have to guess what your situation
> is and clicking on a link to a huge log file should only be a last resort.
> 
I see that.  However, we have done some investigation already, to the point 
where only running 'yum -d9 update exiv\*' was going to tell us any more.  On 
reading the file, Karanbir Singh said

<quote>
This looks like a repo problem, you should report it to the 
rpmforge-users list so they can fix it ( although many of the packages 
from rpmforge are here on this list as well, its still worth reporting 
to their list )
</quote>

Hence the large file for your perusal.

I you need information that isn't in that file or this message, please ask and 
I'll gather it for you.  Thanks

Anne
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