[BlueOnyx:02990] Re: perl-Compress-Zlib / OpenWebMail yum dependency

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Rod,

> The most recent yum update failed for me (see output below).  This is my
> test BX server.  The only yum related difference from a fresh ISO
> install is the addition of the rpmforge repository used to install the
> nagios-nrpe package.  yum clean all & yum update fail to resolve the
> dependency issue.  Suggestions?

You see, there is this warning text in /etc/yum.repos.d/0_WARNING.txt:

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WARNING!
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Do NOT use RPMForge!

Do NOT tie your server into third party YUM repositories UNLESS they are 
certified for BlueOnyx.

Third party YUM repository servers (*especially* RPMforge!) replace onboard 
RPMs with versions that conflict with BlueOnyx. That will then break the GUI 
and will cause service outages.

The damages that this will cause may not be easy to repair.

If you require specific software that's not present in the CentOS5 or BlueOnyx 
YUM repositories, then consider asking for it on the BlueOnyx mailing list to 
check what other peoples experiences with it are.

The mailing list can be found here:

http://www.blueonyx.it/index.php?page=mailing-list

Thank you.

Team BlueOnyx
http://www.blueonyx.it
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So the problem arose when RPMforge was used during a YUM update. It updated 
and/or replaced RPMs with differnet versions, breaking dependencies left and 
right.

It can be repaired, but would require quite a bit of work. You'd need to go 
through /var/log/yum.log, need to find out which RPMs came from RPMforge, need 
to remove them and replace those RPMs with the versions out of the CentOS5 
and/or BlueOnyx YUM repository.

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With best regards

Michael Stauber