Thread: rpm failure

While running a yum update on a system, the update fails with the message:

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 14:57 -0700, David Bear wrote:
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> I've modified all the /etc/yum.repos.d/ files to exclude=postgresql*

This is wrong, if you include pgdg repo in the word "all" above.

What did you exclude exactly?

> I've checked, and I don't have  postgresql-libs-8.1.22-1.el5_5.1.i386
> installed. I've installed postgresql from the pgdg rpm.

The message says "You have 8.3, which is newer than 8.1". It does not
say that you have 8.1.

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David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> writes:
> While running a yum update on a system, the update fails with the message:
> Transaction Check Error:
>   package postgresql-libs-8.3.11-1PGDG.el5.x86_64 (which is newer than
> postgresql-libs-8.1.22-1.el5_5.1.i386) is already installed

It looks to me like yum would like to install the current Red Hat
version of postgresql-libs, most likely because you have or need to
install some other Red Hat package that requires it.

            regards, tom lane

run rpm -qa | grep postgres - you'll see which postgresql packages are installed. If you'll find there any 8.1 packages, remove them and install compat-postgresql-libs from the pgdg repo instead.

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