Cent OS 6.2 のアップデートで matahari の依存関係が解決できない

某社で VPS を借りたところ、Cent OS 6.2が入っていた(執筆時点の最新バージョンは6.4)。結構古いので、まずアップデートをかけてみたところ、matahari 関係のパッケージで依存関係が解決できないというエラーが出た。yum update したときの結果は、以下の通りだ。

[root@server ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
...
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: matahari-host-0.4.4-11.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
           Requires: libqpidclient.so.5()(64bit)
           Removing: qpid-cpp-client-0.12-6.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
               libqpidclient.so.5()(64bit)
           Updated By: qpid-cpp-client-0.14-22.el6_3.x86_64 (base)
               Not found
Error: Package: matahari-service-0.4.4-11.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
           Requires: libqpidcommon.so.5()(64bit)
           Removing: qpid-cpp-client-0.12-6.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
               libqpidcommon.so.5()(64bit)
           Updated By: qpid-cpp-client-0.14-22.el6_3.x86_64 (base)
               Not found
Error: Package: matahari-agent-lib-0.4.4-11.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
           Requires: libqpidclient.so.5()(64bit)
           Removing: qpid-cpp-client-0.12-6.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
               libqpidclient.so.5()(64bit)
           Updated By: qpid-cpp-client-0.14-22.el6_3.x86_64 (base)
               Not found
Error: Package: matahari-network-0.4.4-11.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
           Requires: libqpidcommon.so.5()(64bit)
           Removing: qpid-cpp-client-0.12-6.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
               libqpidcommon.so.5()(64bit)
           Updated By: qpid-cpp-client-0.14-22.el6_3.x86_64 (base)
               Not found
Error: Package: matahari-host-0.4.4-11.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
           Requires: libqpidcommon.so.5()(64bit)
           Removing: qpid-cpp-client-0.12-6.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
               libqpidcommon.so.5()(64bit)
           Updated By: qpid-cpp-client-0.14-22.el6_3.x86_64 (base)
               Not found
Error: Package: matahari-sysconfig-0.4.4-11.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
           Requires: libqpidclient.so.5()(64bit)
           Removing: qpid-cpp-client-0.12-6.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
               libqpidclient.so.5()(64bit)
           Updated By: qpid-cpp-client-0.14-22.el6_3.x86_64 (base)
               Not found
Error: Package: matahari-sysconfig-0.4.4-11.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
           Requires: libqpidcommon.so.5()(64bit)
           Removing: qpid-cpp-client-0.12-6.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
               libqpidcommon.so.5()(64bit)
           Updated By: qpid-cpp-client-0.14-22.el6_3.x86_64 (base)
               Not found
Error: Package: matahari-service-0.4.4-11.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
           Requires: libqpidclient.so.5()(64bit)
           Removing: qpid-cpp-client-0.12-6.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
               libqpidclient.so.5()(64bit)
           Updated By: qpid-cpp-client-0.14-22.el6_3.x86_64 (base)
               Not found
Error: Package: matahari-agent-lib-0.4.4-11.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
           Requires: libqpidcommon.so.5()(64bit)
           Removing: qpid-cpp-client-0.12-6.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
               libqpidcommon.so.5()(64bit)
           Updated By: qpid-cpp-client-0.14-22.el6_3.x86_64 (base)
               Not found
Error: Package: matahari-network-0.4.4-11.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
           Requires: libqpidclient.so.5()(64bit)
           Removing: qpid-cpp-client-0.12-6.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-CentOS-201112091719.x86_64/6.2)
               libqpidclient.so.5()(64bit)
           Updated By: qpid-cpp-client-0.14-22.el6_3.x86_64 (base)
               Not found
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

調べてみると、matahari-* packages deprecatedという情報が見つかった。Fedora の Matahari の情報ページを見る限り、リモートメンテナンスを行うための API を提供するパッケージ群のようだ。さらに、セキュリティ上問題があるためMatahari の開発は終了しているようだ。

解決策は単純で、パッケージ群を削除すればよいだけのようだ。