I am developing a PostgresDB plugin. The plugin is being run in Postgres in Centos 6.3. To be able to compile my project, I had to install some of the libraries from the epel repository and some from the rpmforge. Interestengly enough some of the packages are duplicated in both repositories, e.g.,:
# yum whatprovides postgis
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, priorities, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* Webmin: download.webmin.com
* base: mirror2.hs-esslingen.de
* epel: mirror.awanti.com
* extras: mirror2.hs-esslingen.de
* rpmforge: mirror.nl.leaseweb.net
* updates: mirror.netcologne.de
postgis-1.5.3-1.el6.x86_64 : Geographic Information Systems Extensions to
: PostgreSQL
Repo : epel
Matched from:
postgis-1.3.6-1.el6.rf.x86_64 : Geographic Information Systems Extensions to
: PostgreSQL
Repo : rpmforge
Matched from:
Now my project compiles, but does not link with missing references:
/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib/postgis-1.5.so: undefined reference to `accumArrayResult'
/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib/postgis-1.5.so: undefined reference to `TupleDescGetAttInMetadata'
/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib/postgis-1.5.so: undefined reference to `repalloc'
/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib/postgis-1.5.so: undefined reference to `SPI_exec'
/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib/postgis-1.5.so: undefined reference to `init_MultiFuncCall'
which most probably means, that some packages got mixed up: some are install from one repo, and some from the other.
Questions: (i) how can I tell yum to install the package from one repo and then reinstall from the other (to see whether the linking errors would go away); (ii) how can I see what packages on the system are installed from one repo and what from the other?
Best Answer
yum list installed
will tell you from what repo a given package was installed, e.g.:To select which variant to install, just use the exact name of the variant you want to install from your
whatprovides
list:For more info, see the
specify package names
section ofman yum
.