[WBEL-users] dependency problem

[Jeff Macdonald]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:08:18 -0600, Kirby C. Bohling
<kbohling@birddog.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I guess I took the simple way out, I just removed arts (rpm -e) and
other packages that depended it. I just have servers, so I didn't see
the need for sound related stuff....

-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA