[aklug] Re: Missing dependency

They should both return the same answer, as they do on my system. If
the --whatprovides does not return the same answer then there is an
issue with rpm and the provides indexes. If that is the case then a
'rpm --rebuilddb' would be in order.

Jon

Quoting Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>:

> I don't think "rpm -q --whatprovides xen-libs" is going to get you
> anywhere, not a valid query. xen-libs would be an answer, not a
> question. "rpm -q
> --whatprovides /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sos/plugins/xen.pyc" is
> a valid query.
>
> Jim G
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 09:35 -0800, jonr@destar.net wrote:
>> Quoting Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>:
>>
>> > Kind of looks like you might have a mix of 64 & 32 bit packages. Is it
>> > possible the 32 bit version of xen-libs isn't aware of xen in 64 bit so
>> > doesn't know that needs to be upgraded as well.
>> >
>> > Maybe uninstall the 64 bit version of xen before upgrading xen-libs?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 17:09 -0700, phon phaymany wrote:
>> >> I don' t know if I am emailing to the right place. I ran into some
>> >> problem with
>> >> redhat when running yum update it gives me an error message of
>> >> error: Missing
>> >> dependency: xen-libs =3.0.3-88.e15 is needed by package
>> >> xen-3.0.3-88e15.x86_64
>> >> (installed). When I do a yum install xen-libs=3.0.3-88.e15 it gives
>> >> me the same
>> >> error message.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Phon
>>
>> A couple things jump out at me:
>>
>> 1. it should be a "-" not and "=" sign for the package name.
>> 2. in the same package name it is el5(lower case "ell") not e15.
>>
>> Can you run these two commands and show the output for each?
>>
>> rpm -q xen-libs
>> rpm -q --whatprovides xen-libs
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>
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