[tools] yum tries to install too many packages

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, John Lee wrote:

> I have a user running Red Hat ES3 U5 and when he tried to run "yum
> install iptraf" (using version yum 2.0.8) it tried to install and update
> additional FIFTY+ packages siting dependency issues.
>
> It didn't seem right so we tried just manually installing the iptraf
> RPM (rpm -Uvh) and it installed fine without any dependency issues.
>
> Again, this is a RedHat ES3 machine installing from a CentOS3-i386
> RPMforge repository, using the old yum-arch (headers.info) format for
> metafiles.
>
> Has anyone experienced this?  And know why this is happening?  Tried
> running 'yum install iptraf' on RedHat ES4 machines and it worked fine
> without asking me to install additional 50+ packages...

Again, I think this is more something for the yum mailinglist. And I would
add the output in verbose mode when you do the report.

Coincidently I installed iptraf yesterday on a RHEL3 using apt and it
didn't pull anything else with it.

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