Up2date fails to update pppd
Ian Pilcher
i.pilcher at comcast.net
Sat Jul 10 16:25:16 UTC 2004
Chris Jones wrote:
> For the last couple of days, I have been trying to apply an update
> flagged by the RHN Up2date icon for pppd-2.4.2-3-FC2.1. However, when I
> go through the up2date process, it stops with a warning saying:
> There was a package dependency problem. The message was:
> Unresolvable chain of dependancies:
> initscripts-7.53-1 requires pppd < 2.3.9
>
> Is this a "bug" with up2date? If not, how do I overcome this error?
>
initscripts-7.53-1 actually *conflicts* with pppd < 2.3.9, rather than
requiring it. There's a problem with the new ppp package that's
triggering the conflict, but there's also a bug in up2date that's
reporting it as a requirement rather than a conflict.
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