Recived a notice in ASL today to apply updates.

After running Yum Update I go tthe following error.

--> Running transaction check
---> Package libedit.i386 0:3.0-2.20090923cvs.el5.art set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.17-1.el5.art for package: php-mhash
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
php-mhash-5.2.17-1.el5.art.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.17-1.el5.art is needed by package php-mhash-5.2.17-1.el5.art.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.17-1.el5.art is needed by package php-mhash-5.2.17-1.el5.art.i386 (installed)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Any suggestions?

Looking at the repository it indeed looks like there are no packages for php-mhash for PHP 5.3.6. They might be coming later?

Yup, that was removed from 5.3: http://php.net/releases/5_3_0.php

Seems like the hash functions are part of PHP core since 5.3. So I guess you can just remove php-mhash and upgrade. Or aren't these functions backwards compatible? If they are maybe the PHP core package should have something like Obsoletes: php-mhash (and Provides: php-mhash? I'm not too familiar with these things.) in its spec file, so php-mhash is removed automatically on upgrades?

Sure, all good ideas. I think we'll wait a bit for any other minor changes before making an update.

So I guess, I should wait before I apply the update?

I ment to the package, it takes hours to build for all distros & architectures (even across the cluster). I'd rather wait to see if there are any more changes to add so we dont end up doing this multiple times.

Yeah I've been having the same issue the last few days.

I'll hold off the updates till you give the ok Scott.

Has there been any progress on this issue? I haven't been able to run any yum updates since it began.

Why don't you just remove php-mhash yourself and then try the upgrade again?

next update should be out today. It should fix the obsoleted packages and handle upgrades of the php53 branch added in CentOS 5.6

Excellant, thanks Scott.