{"id":1498,"date":"2009-05-14T23:53:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T04:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2009-05-14T23:53:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T04:53:19","slug":"centos-53-yum-update-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/14\/centos-53-yum-update-fails","title":{"rendered":"CentOS 5.3, yum update fails?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centos.org\/\">CentOS<\/a> fan. I think servers these days should either be Ubuntu Servers or CentOS based, and nothing else, if you&#8217;re going the Linux route.<\/p>\n<p>CentOS 5.3, on the x86_64 platform, seemed to have an issue where <tt>yum<\/tt> would cause a <a href=\"http:\/\/gist.github.com\/112053\">traceback<\/a>, with <tt>file.x86_64 0:4.17-15.el5_3.1<\/tt>. There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.centos.org\/view.php?id=3613\">bug open<\/a> for it, but it apparently doesn&#8217;t happen on all systems.<\/p>\n<p>The magic around this is to really just run <tt>yum clean all<\/tt>, and then run <tt>yum update<\/tt>. What that basically does is it cleans all packages that are cached in the system, as well as removes all header files used for dependency resolution. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard jokes about RPM hell in a long time&#8230; I am thinking that its mostly disappeared, and largely this is thanks to dependency resolution provided for by yum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big CentOS fan. I think servers these days should either be Ubuntu Servers or CentOS based, and nothing else, if you&#8217;re going the Linux route. CentOS 5.3, on the x86_64 platform, seemed to have an issue where yum would cause a traceback, with file.x86_64 0:4.17-15.el5_3.1. There is a bug open for it, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,928,929],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-centos","tag-rpm","tag-yum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-oa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}