After dealing with this issue twice, and both times not finding much of a written out solution, I figured I would take 10 minutes to document the couple easy steps I take to get around these update issues.
After issuing the command yum update, you may end up with errors like so:
Error: asterisk14-res_fax conflicts with asterisk14-addons-core Error: asterisk14-res_fax_digium conflicts with asterisk14-addons-core
So, after doing some research you’ll quickly find this is simply a licensing issue and it is safe to force install the RPMs (digium thread)
First let’s install yumdownloader to make getting the RPMs easier.
yum install yum-utils
Now download both of the RPMs we will need into the current directory.
yumdownloader asterisk14-res_fax yumdownloader asterisk14-res_fax_digium
Most recently, before force installing these RPMs, I went ahead and updated everything else, skipping these packages using –skip-broken
yum update --skip-broken
Then I force installed the other two RPMs
rpm -Uvh --nodeps asterisk14-res_fax-{VERSION}.rpm asterisk14-res_fax_digium-{VERSION}.rpmOnce upgraded, I issued another full update again to verify everything is good
yum update
“No Packages marked for Update”