[BlueOnyx:16616] Re: yum update with postfix?

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Dirk,

> just did a yum update  on a 5208R and sl-repo wanted to install a 
> postfix-update:
> 
> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> libmysqlclient.so.16()(64bit) is needed by postfix-2:2.6.6-6.el6_5.x86_64
> libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlclient_16)(64bit) is needed by 
> postfix-2:2.6.6-6.el6_5.x86_64
> ** Found 2 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
> 2:postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.x86_64 has missing requires of 
> libmysqlclient.so.16()(64bit)
> 2:postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.x86_64 has missing requires of 
> libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlclient_16)(64bit)
> 
> Any ideas about this?

That's an OpenVZ VPS? If so, it might actually have both postfix and
sendmail installed and is only using sendmail. Still: During conflict
resolution of YUM updates it might cause these issues.

You can safely run "yum remove postfix" to get rid of postfix and that
will clear these dependency issues.

As we will probably see this issue more often I'll update the base-email
RPMs with a work around that "obsoletes" postfix to have it uninstalled
automatically.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber