[WBEL-users] Circularity in YUM

[david]

Folks

I am maintaining several systems with WBEL.  Although I tried to perform 
identical initial installations, the process was manual so I'm sure some 
differences occurred.  In one and only one of the systems, every time I 
perform a YUM update, I receive a message notice from the Cron job I use to 
perform updates.  All of these systems are servers, and no GUI is 
installed, as far as I know.


Issuing /usr/bin/yum -y -e 0 update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
.....identical dependency loop exceeded
package up2date-gnome needs up2date = 4.2.5 (not provided)
package XFree86-Xvfb needs XFree86 = 4.3.0-62.EL (not provided)
package redhat-config-network needs redhat-config-network-tui = 1.2.60-1 
(not provided)
Issuing /usr/bin/yum -y -e 0 clean
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Cleaning packages and old headers

On other systems, I get perfectly clean results.

On ALL systems, I am using yum.conf as follows:

---------------------------  begin yum.conf


[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=whitebox-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20
failovermethod=roundrobin
gpgcheck=1

[base]
name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
# 
ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
# 
ftp://ftp.kspei.com/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
# 
ftp://ftp.jach.hawaii.edu/pub/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
# 
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/whiteboxlinux/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
# 
ftp://ftp.opensourcemirrors.org/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
#        http://whitebox.phantomhosting.com/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/

[updates-released]
name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
#        ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$releasever/en/updates/
# 
ftp://ftp.kspei.com/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
#        ftp://ftp.jach.hawaii.edu/pub/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
# 
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/whiteboxlinux/$releasever/en/updates/
#        ftp://ftp.opensourcemirrors.org/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
#        http://whitebox.phantomhosting.com/$releasever/en/updates/

---------------------------  end yum.conf

Also, on all systems, I performed a yum clean headers to allows the 
databases to regenerate.

Help?  Is there some other information I could supply?

David