[WBEL-users] whoa! yum went crazy and added Xwindows

[William Hooper]

Josh Hildebrand said:
> I try really hard to keep xwindows off my server.  All the sudden, last 
> night, yum decided it needed it.  Probably to satisfy the dependency of
> some updated RPM.  Sounds like that rpm has a false dependency.  Or a new
> one, at the very least.  Can someone help me determine which one it was?
> I'd like to rpm -e all of these new rpms.

Are you sure XFree was installed?  I don't have much practice reading yum log files, but it looks to me like:
 
> New rpms from mirror.physics.ncsu.edu: 

[list of newly available RPMs in the repo]

> Purging rpms:

[list of old RPMs that have been removed from repo]

> Upgrading rpms:

[RPMs that have been upgraded]

> laus-libs-0.1-56RHEL3.i386.rpm
> (new) pam-0.75-54.i386.rpm pam-devel-0.75-54.i386.rpm 
> comps-3.0.0whitebox-0.20040609.i386.rpm 
> initscripts-7.31.13.EL-1.WB2.i386.rpm rhnlib-1.5-1.1.WB1.noarch.rpm 
> rpmdb-whitebox-3.0-0.20040609.i386.rpm up2date-4.3.19-1.WB1.i386.rpm 
> warning: /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources created as 
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.rpmnew yum-2.0.7-1.1.WB1.noarch.rpm warning:
> /etc/yum.conf created as /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew 

But I could be wrong.
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William Hooper