Problem with Libevent updating from CentOS 6.7 to 6.8, PostgreSQL 9.3 - Mailing list pgsql-pkg-yum

From Paul Coen
Subject Problem with Libevent updating from CentOS 6.7 to 6.8, PostgreSQL 9.3
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Msg-id CAJjkvr8MQxmTANF1A+siK4eD1ZUxF_EgAMmvGxi_fVkZzQx8Wg@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Problem with Libevent updating from CentOS 6.7 to 6.8, PostgreSQL 9.3  (Paul Coen <pcoen@drew.edu>)
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I'm seeing what I believe to be a similar problem to: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1403098731.14178.6.camel%40asus-laptop-03.gunduz.org

My system:

# uname -a
Linux cs.drew.edu 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 9 22:46:17 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    :base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: CentOS
Description:    CentOS release 6.7 (Final)
Release:        6.7
Codename:       Final

It's happening on a few systems with CentOS 6.7 and pgsql 9.3 installed from the 9.3 repo. We've got a couple of packages that only support 9.3. 

In my case, yum is failing with:

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/bin/event_rpcgen.py from install of libevent-devel-2.0.19-1.rhel6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package compat-libevent14-1.4.13-1.rhel6.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/libevent_core.a from install of libevent-devel-2.0.19-1.rhel6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package compat-libevent14-1.4.13-1.rhel6.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/libevent_core.so from install of libevent-devel-2.0.19-1.rhel6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package compat-libevent14-1.4.13-1.rhel6.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/libevent_extra.a from install of libevent-devel-2.0.19-1.rhel6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package compat-libevent14-1.4.13-1.rhel6.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/libevent_extra.so from install of libevent-devel-2.0.19-1.rhel6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package compat-libevent14-1.4.13-1.rhel6.x86_64


I'm wondering if the compat-libevent14 problem that apparently existed in the 9.4 and 9.5 repo is also present in 9.3? If so, is it possible to get that fixed? Otherwise, any reasonable, low-risk workarounds? 

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Paul Coen, Senior Systems Architect 
Drew University, Madison NJ

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