Up2date fails to update pppd

[Timothy Payne]

On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 09:35, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 11:25, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> yep,  yum shows it as a conflict.

This is a tip from Pedro Macedo I got that worked:

"Same answer I'm giving to everyone else: It's a know bug. Has been
fixed and a fix is in CVS. Meanwhile , use 

yum --exclude=initscripts --exclude=ppp --exclude=pppd upgrade 
to update your system , while the corrected package isnt available.

--
Pedro Macedo"