[Server-devel] Revisor / yum odd error with f9 updates.newkey repo: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by package glibc-2.8-3.i386

[Connie Sieh]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:23 AM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> The error is
>>>   Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by package
>>> glibc-2.8-3.i386
>>
>> Is there any other debug information available?
>>
>> _something_ is pulling in glibc-2.8-3 instead of 2.8-8. That's what's
>> horking the issue with 2.8-3, most likely.
>>
>> But without more debugging info I'm hard pressed to tell you what's
>> happening.
>
> Can't get revisor to give me a separate yum log at the moment, but I
> managed to get yum into high-debug mode. So the messages are mixed
> between revisor and yum, but it seems to make sense:
>
>   http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/revisoryum.log.bz2
>
> It definitely sees 2.8-8, and I can't spot anything that calls
> glibc-2.8-3 *except* that there's a mention of it being included "from
> Groups" --
>
> Including glibc
>> From Groups: Adding glibc-0:2.8-8.i686 to transaction
>> From Groups: Adding glibc-0:2.8-8.i386 to transaction
>> From Groups: Adding glibc-0:2.8-3.i386 to transaction
>> From Groups: Adding glibc-0:2.8-3.i686 to transaction
>
> and later 2.8-3 wants the matching glibc-common, which *is* in the
> repo. However, yum doesn't like it and it doesn't settle for the 2.8-8
> set.
>
> Do the logs make sense to you?
>
> Also -- I did add glibc and glibc-common explicitly to the kickstart
> file, but it didn't make a difference.

I excluded glibc* from the "Everything" repository in the 
revisor-f9-i386.conf file just to get past this error.

-Connie Sieh