I tried to do a 'yum update' one day, a couple weeks had gone by so there was a big list of packages available. I know I can use yum-cron, but I like to be more in control and do it myself. Of course I used to do the same thing with Windows and eventually caved and let it update whenever, but for now I want to do it myself. :)
Anyway, I was getting dependency errors on libgpod, which I don't need since I don't have Apple devices - it allows connections to an iPod. The following was the output:
yum update
[snip]
Errors:
Error: Package: libgpod-0.8.3-14.el7.x86_64 (@epel)
Requires: libplist.so.1()(64bit)
Removing: libplist-1.10-4.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda/7.2)
libplist.so.1()(64bit)
Updated By: libplist-1.12-3.el7.x86_64 (ol7_latest)
~libplist.so.3()(64bit)
Error: Package: libgpod-0.8.3-14.el7.x86_64 (@epel)
Requires: libimobiledevice.so.4()(64bit)
Removing: libimobiledevice-1.1.5-6.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda/7.2)
libimobiledevice.so.4()(64bit)
Updated By: libimobiledevice-1.2.0-1.el7.x86_64 (ol7_latest)
~libimobiledevice.so.6()(64bit)
Error: Package: libgpod-0.8.3-14.el7.x86_64 (@epel)
Requires: libusbmuxd.so.2()(64bit)
Removing: usbmuxd-1.0.8-11.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda/7.2)
libusbmuxd.so.2()(64bit)
Obsoleted By: usbmuxd-1.1.0-1.el7.x86_64 (ol7_latest)
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You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
I poked into it a bit, but in the end there was no working around the root of the problem. I tried the two options suggested:
yum update --skip-broken
Well this worked, but just avoids the issue and leaves the problem for next time.
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
This will verify installed packages to check for anything wrong, the --nofiles and --nodigest refers to ignoring file attributes and digest problems. This didn't help in my case - nothing useful was discovered.
In the end, I removed the problem package:
rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches libgpod
yum update
The options are to ignore dependencies, and to remove all versions of the package.
Voila. Now if I had an iPod, it would've meant actually resolving the root problem. Not too sure exactly what it is, but I suspect the libgpod package would have to be rebuilt in epel due to some issue with its dependencies.
Addendum: you may want to also exclude the package from epel repositories. You can add:
exclude=libgpod*
to the file:
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
