nodejs-16 dependency issue with libuv

This is what I'm getting on my Amazon Linux 2 instance while trying to run yum update.

Do you suggest I use --skip-broken or wait until AWS rolls out a fix?

--> Processing Dependency: libuv >= 1:1.42.0 for package: 1:nodejs-16.13.2-8.el7.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: 1:nodejs-16.13.2-8.el7.x86_64 (epel-testing)
           Requires: libuv >= 1:1.42.0
           Installed: 1:libuv-1.39.0-1.amzn2.x86_64 (@amzn2-core)
               libuv = 1:1.39.0-1.amzn2
           Available: 1:libuv-1.23.2-1.amzn2.0.2.i686 (amzn2-core)
               libuv = 1:1.23.2-1.amzn2.0.2
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Solution

I believe the issue is because you are using just multiple yum repos and there is a version mismatch for the latest version of the libuv package (epel-testing and amzn2-core). What worked for me was to temporarily disable the epel repo, or disable temporarily all yum plugins (set plugins=0 on /etc/yum.conf) and perform the yum upgrade.