On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:01 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have a dev box that I configured in Dec 2011 - about 17 months ago. I have not updated it.

It is CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)

I issued "yum update: and I get :

Error: Package: python-mako-0.3.5-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
           Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
           Removing: python-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.x86_64 (@updates)
               python(abi) = 2.6
           Updated By: python-2.6.6-36.el6.x86_64 (base)
               python(abi) = 2.6
Error: Package: python-genshi-0.6-2.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
           Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
           Removing: python-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.x86_64 (@updates)
               python(abi) = 2.6
           Updated By: python-2.6.6-36.el6.x86_64 (base)
               python(abi) = 2.6
Error: Package: python-netaddr-0.7.10-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
           Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
           Removing: python-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.x86_64 (@updates)
               python(abi) = 2.6
           Updated By: python-2.6.6-36.el6.x86_64 (base)
               python(abi) = 2.6
Error: Package: python-pygments-1.4-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
           Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
           Removing: python-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.x86_64 (@updates)
               python(abi) = 2.6
           Updated By: python-2.6.6-36.el6.x86_64 (base)
               python(abi) = 2.6
Error: Package: python-krbv-1.0.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
           Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
           Removing: python-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.x86_64 (@updates)
               python(abi) = 2.6
           Updated By: python-2.6.6-36.el6.x86_64 (base)
               python(abi) = 2.6
Error: Package: python-paramiko-1.7.6-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
           Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
           Removing: python-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.x86_64 (@updates)
               python(abi) = 2.6
           Updated By: python-2.6.6-36.el6.x86_64 (base)
               python(abi) = 2.6
Error: Package: python-markupsafe-0.11-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
           Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
           Removing: python-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.x86_64 (@updates)
               python(abi) = 2.6
           Updated By: python-2.6.6-36.el6.x86_64 (base)
               python(abi) = 2.6
Error: Package: python-beaker-1.5.3-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
           Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
           Removing: python-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.x86_64 (@updates)
               python(abi) = 2.6
           Updated By: python-2.6.6-36.el6.x86_64 (base)
               python(abi) = 2.6
Error: Package: python-babel-0.9.5-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
           Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
           Removing: python-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.x86_64 (@updates)
               python(abi) = 2.6
           Updated By: python-2.6.6-36.el6.x86_64 (base)
               python(abi) = 2.6
Error: Package: mod_wsgi-3.4-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
           Requires: libpython2.4.so.1.0()(64bit)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Did you have to install or lock any packages in order to install a specific package or build?

Each package requires it's own minimum version of python, that needs to match your distro version and bus type (64 bit / 32 bit). So if the requirement is for Python 2.4 and your system has been updated to 2.6 under most circumstances your packages will be fine. However, there exist packages that can't be updated due to interdependence.

If I skip updating Python is that going to cause me problems?

Yes, python will need to be updated.

These errors indicate that package management is attempting to install the el5 version of packages rather than the correct distro.

Solution: Reinstall RPMFORGE



# wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm


# yum clean all
# yum update

Thanks!!

If you have the ability to boot into Knoppix and dd the full system to an external USB or SAN, I would recommend doing so before the updates, should you have a great deal of configuration completed and important systems/services.

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