Upgrading FC4 -> FC5 via yum.

Naoki naoki at valuecommerce.com
Tue Jan 17 06:00:48 UTC 2006


yumex (which I now love by the way) was saying my cache file was version
6 and it needed to be 7. I chose 'kernel-smp' from the list but it had
the same dependency problem as CLI yum. :(


On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 14:54 +0900, Naoki wrote:
> Cheers for the advice all,
> 
> I can't even install the kernel though because it resolves a huge chain
> of dependencies until it dies on X.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libdevmapper.so.1.02 for package: dmraid
> --> Processing Conflict: hwdata conflicts system-config-display < 1.0.31
> --> Processing Dependency: module-init-tools >= 3.2 for package: hwdata
> --> Processing Dependency: libdevmapper.so.1.02(Base) for package:
> dmraid
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package system-config-display.noarch 0:1.0.35-1 set to be updated
> ---> Package device-mapper.i386 0:1.02.02-3 set to be updated
> ---> Package module-init-tools.i386 0:3.2-0.pre9.1.1 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libdevmapper.so.1.01(Base) for package: lvm2
> --> Processing Dependency: rhpl >= 0.170-1 for package:
> system-config-display
> --> Processing Dependency: libdevmapper.so.1.01 for package: lvm2
> --> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/Xorg for package:
> system-config-display
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot is needed by package
> xinitrc
> Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg is needed by package
> xinitrc
> Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11 is needed by package glitz
> Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11 is needed by package xorg-x11-tools
> Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-libs = 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 is needed
> by package xorg-x11-xfs
> Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-libs >= 6.7.99 is needed by package
> libgnomeui
> Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-libs is needed by package pango
> Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB is needed by
> package openmotif
> Error: Missing Dependency: libdps.so.1 is needed by package ImageMagick
> Error: Missing Dependency: libdpstk.so.1 is needed by package
> ImageMagick
> Error: Missing Dependency: fonts-xorg-75dpi is needed by package emacs
> 
> Doh.. "Conflict: hwdata conflicts system-config-display" seems to be my
> problem as that is where it decides to pull in everything X related.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 19:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > >You are way in the Testing guide is just fine, i just described a way
> > >using yumex, because it is easier to find the stuff to be remove on a
> > >FC4 system with a lot of 3 party stuff, there are making dependency
> > >troubles when updating to Rawhide and i want use the the best mirror
> > >detection included in the lastest yumex release to speedup the package
> > >download by using the most updated and fastest mirrors.
> > >
> > >
> > >Tim
> > >  
> > >
> > Well you can get these documented within the testing guide and add a one 
> > stop reference. If you need edit access to the wiki, let me know.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Rahul 
> > 
> > Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
> 





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