BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM

2011-10-26 15:42:13
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC to NFS then to tape via DPM
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:40:53 -0500
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> Actually I got that turned around... I don't know why it's not installing.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 AT gmail DOT com> 
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Rick Bastedo <rbastedo AT gmail DOT com> 
>> wrote:
>>> I got back to this today.
>>> I have been finding and installing each of the dependencies and then came
>>> to:
>>>
>>> "perl-XML-RSS"
>>>
>>> It had a dependency of: "perl-DateTime-Format-Mail"
>>> I found that and tried installing it and got:
>>> "           Requires: perl(DateTime) >= 0.1705
>>>            Installed: 1:perl-DateTime-0.5300-1.el6.x86_64
>>> (@rhel-6-server-rpms)
>>>                perl(DateTime) = 0.53
>>> "
>>> I looked this up and it seems to be a dilemma, I've got a newer version than
>>> what it seems to require however it won't install.
>>> This is the last thing BackupPC seems to be complaining about, if I can
>>> figure this out I can proceed with the installation.
>>> I don't remember this happening on my test system, but even though it was
>>> the same OS it was a different environment.
>>> Ideas about getting around this please?
>>
>> Well, in theory the version you have installed is newer than the
>> requirement, EXCEPT, that there's an epoch of 1 on yours which trumps
>> the version (the 1 in front of perl-DateTime). Since BackupPC is
>> provided by EPEL on Fedora, I would file a bug against it on bugzilla.
>> They may reassign it to the correct perl component but you may
>> eventually get things fixed.
>>

Any idea why this works with the same packages on Centos 6.x but not
RHEL?  Or why the RHEL yum wasn't resolving the dependencies itself in
the first place?  If it is just a yum issue, downloading the rpm and
installing with rpm -i or -U should work now that the dependent
packages are there.


-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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