I have a peculiar problem. It makes no sense to me, and I'd appreciate some ideas on how to investigate what's going on.

I have RedHat EL 5 and when I run yum update, it goes and gets the headers for 30 or so packages, then shows the following:

--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: xen-libs = 3.0.3-25.el5 for package: xen
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: xen-libs = 3.0.3-25.el5 is needed by package xen

So, these are the versions of xen and xen-libs installed:
[root]# rpm -q xen-libs
xen-libs-3.0.3-25.el5
[root]# rpm -q xen
xen-3.0.3-25.el5

It looks to me that yum is complaining that something exists, not that something is missing...

Now, I have changed the up2date config to point it at our Redhat Network Proxy server... that's not a problem, is it?

Dave Smith

Ok, I've got this resolved. Looks like redhat have messed up and not uploaded xen 3.0.3-25.0.3.el5 which is required by xen-libs with the same version.

when I excluded xen-libs (--exclude xen-libs) from the update, it ran fine.

Woohoo!