While updating vzctl to latest on CentOS-5.8, I was getting the below error:
# yum update vzctl
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* openvz-kernel-rhel5: mirror.fdcservers.net
* openvz-utils: mirror.fdcservers.net
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package vzctl.x86_64 0:4.1-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: vzctl-core = 4.1-1 for package: vzctl
--> Processing Dependency: libvzctl-4.1.so()(64bit) for package: vzctl
--> Processing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1()(64bit) for package: vzctl
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libcgroup.x86_64 0:0.37-4 set to be updated
---> Package vzctl-core.x86_64 0:4.1-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Conflict: vzctl conflicts ploop-lib < 1.5-1
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ploop-lib.x86_64 0:1.5-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Conflict: ploop-lib conflicts vzkernel < 2.6.32-042stab061.1
--> Processing Conflict: ploop-lib conflicts vzkernel < 2.6.32-042stab061.1
--> Processing Conflict: ploop-lib conflicts vzkernel < 2.6.32-042stab061.1
--> Processing Conflict: ploop-lib conflicts vzkernel < 2.6.32-042stab061.1
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
ploop-lib-1.5-1.x86_64 from openvz-utils has depsolving problems
--> ploop-lib conflicts with ovzkernel
Error: ploop-lib conflicts with ovzkernel
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
The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.Turns out that ploop is no longer required for vzctl on CentOS-5.8 and can be removed:
yum update problem on CentOS 5.8 server
"Since you have RHEL5-based kernel that do not require ploop, you can remove ploop when installing vzctl-4.0. I have made vzctl not requiring ploop by dynamically loading it when it's available. Note that vzctl is not requiring ploop anymore, it just conflicts with the old version of it."
The solution was to remove ploop in single transaction as mentioned:
# yum shell
> update vzctl
> remove ploop\*
> run
> quit