Hi,

I've been quite diligent in keeping my systems current with all patches
and have recently run into a problem with the up2date program.

This is a RedHat 9 on intel.

NOTE: see output below if you want to skip this description.

DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM:
If I un up2date GUI or text, I get an error stating that one of the
packages that needs to be installed requires another package that is LESS
THAN or EQUAL TO a given version.  I check the installed package and find
that the package is identical to the one listed as a dependency.  I've
reinitialized and rebuilt the RPM database and there's no change in
output.  Up2Date fails.

Can anyone help me navigate this one?

Cheers,

~Doug
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__________________________ OUTPUT
/ DEMONSTRATION OF PROBLEM:
[root@bluehat dude]# up2date -u

Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
 ########################################


Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
 ########################################


Fetching rpm headers...
 ########################################


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... There was a
package dependency problem. The message was:

Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
perl-5.8.0-88.3                          requires perl-NDBM_File <=
1:1.75-34.99.6

[root@bluehat dude]# rpm -q perl-NDBM_File perl-NDBM_File-1.75-34.99.6
[root@bluehat dude]#


ALSO:  It appears that there is a direct correlation between leaving email
addresses on newsgroups (reply to) and massive virus infections.

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