[WBEL-users] dependency problem

[Kirby C. Bohling]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:52:11PM -0800, Bob Ramstad wrote:
> OK, so I followed the earlier discussion but never really understood
> the preferred workaround or solution to the "libmad" issue.
> 
> We don't want to have to include other non WBEL RPMs in our yum.conf,
> and we don't want to have to build anything from source ourselves.

You have just eliminated everything except for sit around and wait
until someone else resolves the problem for you, or not getting
certain updates.  Personally, I just built the package locally
installed it on the machine via RPM.  Then yum doesn't want to
update it.  

> Is there a simple solution?  We'd really like to get the latest round
> of updates going on our boxes.

Yes, if you don't need the arts update, include it in the "exclude="
list either on the command line, or in your yum.conf.  Alternatively
wait until John releases an updated version (not sure what the ETA
on that is).  I'd do it via the command line just so I'd remember it
was an ongoing issue.

If you run a local mirror, you could also just remove the arts
package from your mirror after rsync'ing, but before running
yum-arch.  I'm contemplating doing that as a scalable solution for
my network until the new release is put out.

According to the package ChangeLog, it appears that it was because
they had some multi-architecture issues.  So it's probably not a
security issue to not update it.

	Thanks,
		Kirby