One more nit to fix...?

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 17 05:05:31 UTC 2009



On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> I've installed the rpmfusion free and non-free noarch rpms to my F12b
> 64-bit test system. Those both depend on the epel noarch rpm, and
> therein lies an odd problem:
>
> # yum -y update --skip-broken
> Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-x86_64 0:2.020-1.el5 set to be
> updated
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) for package:
> perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.020-1.el5-x86_64
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.020-1.el5.x86_64 from epel has depsolving
> problems
>  --> Missing Dependency: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) is needed by
> package perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.020-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)
>
> Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
>    perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.020-1.el5.x86_64 from epel
>
> Searching my downloads I spotted something very odd:
>
> F12 Everything	perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.008-82.fc12.x86_64.rpm
> F13 Rawhide	perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.008-84.fc13.x86_64.rpm
> EPEL 5		perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.020-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
>
> EPEL appears to have a newer version number than either F12 Everything
> or F13 Rawhide, but the date of that 2.020-1 file is July 1, 2009.
>
> How can this be reconciled???
>

why are you using epel and fedora together?

epel is for centos or rhel not for fedora.

-sv




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