Mystery of yum

[Paul Howarth]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> When I ran "yum update" on one of my computers
> it failed with the following error message
> 
> ==========================================
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package nmh.i386 0:1.1-5.fc3 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: mh for package: exmh
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: mh is needed by package exmh
> ==========================================
> 
> I see that the nmh package it is trying to update is in fedora-extras,
> but there does not appear to be any package mh
> in any of the "standard" fedora repositories.

I don't see an exmh package there either; where did you get it?

$ rpm -qi exmh

> I would have thought that all the packages required by
> a package on fedora-extras should be in one of these fedora repositories?

I would think so too.

Paul.