perfsonar development work

[Roland Karch <>]

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Hi Hans,

Hans Trompert schrieb:
> I was trying to install the ps-mdm-flowsa-ma from downloads.perfsonar.eu 
> with yum on a cleanly installed Fedora 9 system with the perfSONAR 
> repository enabled, and noticed the following unresolved dependency:
> 
> java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.06-1jpp.i586 from perfsonar-i386 has depsolving 
> problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: jdk = 2000:1.6.0_06-fcs is needed by package 
> java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.06-1jpp.i586 (perfsonar-i386)
> 
> But when I disable the perfSONAR repository and do a yum localinstall of 
> the ps-mdm-flowsa-ma and nfdump rpm's after downloading them first, yum 
> decides to use java-1.5.0-gcj that comes with Fedora 9, and everything 
> works just fine.
> 
> I know that Fedora is one of the unsupported platforms, and on a RHEL 5.2 
> system everything just seem to work as expected, when I try to install 
> ps-mdm-flowsa-ma with the perfSONAR repository enabled yum decides to use 
> the java-1.4.2-gcj-compat that comes with RHEL 5.2.
> 
> I am not an dependencies specialist, but is there an easy way to fix the 
> dependencies so a repository install will work again on Fedora?

Yum priorities might be the best solution for your problem. Assign a
lower priority to the perfSONAR repository than the base Fedora
repository. That way, packages in the perfSONAR repo should no longer
override packages in the Fedora repo. I'm assuming this is your problem.

With best wishes,
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Roland Karch, DFN-Labor
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Regionales RechenZentrum Erlangen (RRZE)
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Tel. +49 9131 85-27806, -28800, Fax: +49 9131 302941
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