no provider for XFree86-devel dependency

Patrick Mansfield patmans at us.ibm.com
Wed Nov 2 23:04:00 UTC 2005


On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:12:15PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> * sam oct 29 2005 Mike A. Harris <mharris at redhat.com> 6.8.2-58
> - Remove virtual provide "XFree86-devel" backward compatibility.  All
>   packages that depended on this should now be updated to use the
> modular
>   X library virtual provides included in build -56 and later.

OK.

I guess the workaround is to install with "rpm --nodeps ...".

And sorry, I didn't realize the build reports include the list of broken
dependencies.

In the last build report:

Broken deps for i386
----------------------------------------------------------
	hplip - 0.9.6-4.i386 requires libnetsnmp.so.5
	openhpi - 2.0.3-2.i386 requires libnetsnmp.so.5
	pango-devel - 1.10.1-1.i386 requires XFree86-devel >= 0:4.2.99
	libsane-hpaio - 0.9.6-4.i386 requires libnetsnmp.so.5
	gnome-games - 1:2.12.1-3.i386 requires libhowl.so.0
	SDL-devel - 1.2.8-3.2.i386 requires XFree86-devel
	OpenIPMI - 1.4.14-10.i386 requires libnetsnmp.so.5
	ImageMagick-devel - 6.2.2.0-4.i386 requires XFree86-devel
	gtk+-devel - 1:1.2.10-39.i386 requires XFree86-devel
	nut - 2.0.2-1.i386 requires libnetsnmp.so.5
	gtk2-devel - 2.8.6-3.i386 requires XFree86-devel
	imlib-devel - 1:1.9.13-24.i386 requires XFree86-devel
	kdeutils - 6:3.4.92-1.i386 requires libnetsnmp.so.5

-- Patrick Mansfield




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