Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA411337B7A for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:28:18 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13242-03 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:28:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB5E1337B6E for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:28:10 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p0E0S9k3020814; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:28:09 -0500 (EST) To: David Bear cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: rpm failure In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to David Bear message dated "Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:57:24 -0700" Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:28:09 -0500 Message-ID: <20813.1294964889@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201101/78 X-Sequence-Number: 36518 David Bear 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