obsoleted package breaks yum install of older JBoss

Question

I need to install an older version of JBoss. 6.1.0 EAP is what has been approved and supported for my application. So when I try to force install the correct version of the jboss as packages the install fails. A number of times in the dependency resolution stage I get the following error:

Package shrinkwrap is obsoleted by shrinkwrap-impl-base, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements

Then at the end I get the following error:

Error: Package: jbossas-modules-eap-7.2.0-8.Final_redhat_8.ep6.el6.noarch (jb-eap-6-for-rhel-6-server-rpms)
       Requires: shrinkwrap >= 1.0.0
       Available: shrinkwrap-1.0.0-14.redhat_1.ep6.el6.noarch (jb-eap-6-for-rhel-6-server-rpms)
           shrinkwrap = 1.0.0-14.redhat_1.ep6.el6
       Available: shrinkwrap-1.0.0-16.redhat_2.ep6.el6.noarch (jb-eap-6-for-rhel-6-server-rpms)
           shrinkwrap = 1.0.0-16.redhat_2.ep6.el6

If I try:

yum install shrinkwrap-1.0.0-16.redhat_2.ep6.el6.noarch

It changes it to shrinkwrap-impl-base-1.1.2. So I'm not sure the best way to proceed.

Is it possible to force yum to install the 1.0.0 package? If not, is it possible to install shrinkwrap-impl-base then install JBoss and ignore only that dependency? (there are several hundred other dependencies so I don't want to ignore all dependencies.)

Or is there some other solution?

System if RHEL 6.4 with base entitlement and jb-eap-6-for-rhel-6-server-rpms channel installed.

Solution 1

sudo yum --setopt=obsoletes=0 install shrinkwrap

Or you can put obsoletes=0 to /etc/yum.conf to make such behavior persistent.

Both ways worked for me on Oracle Linux 6.7.

Solution 2

Is your application certified for RHEL6?

If so, this is then a support case; and since you're paying for this, do leverage it first.

If your application isn't certified for RHEL6, then it's a learning opportunity. "Is this certified for RHEL(version)" should be in the first 5 questions you ask about a given product, as you want to be able to use the support you're entitled to!