More and more yum dependency problems

[Jim Cornette]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 09:48 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>  
>
>>On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Harald Grossauer wrote:
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>>>Running "yum update" for the first time in almost four weeks, I get the
>>>following errors:
>>>
>>>Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.0 is needed by package libtool
>>>Error: Missing Dependency: openoffice.org-core = 1:1.9.104-2 is needed
>>>by package openoffice.org-pyuno
>>>Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
>>>Error: Package mozilla needs mozilla-nss = 37:1.7.8-2, this is not
>>>available.
>>>Error: Package mozilla needs mozilla-nspr = 37:1.7.8-2, this is not
>>>available.
>>>Error: Package libtool needs gcc = 4.0.0, this is not available.
>>>Error: Package openoffice.org-pyuno needs openoffice.org-core =
>>>1:1.9.104-2, this is not available.
>>>      
>>>
>
>I had this happen a few times.
>It was fixed by one of 2 things (depending upon the cause).
>1) If the mirror being used is out of sync, wait a while (sometimes 1 -
>2 days) for them to resync and try again.
>
>2) Verify the package that it is complaining about then
>check  /var/log/yum.log to find out when and from what repo that package
>was installed.  Sometimes I use certain repos only for specific packages
>and updates may break the dependencies there.  Enable the repo again to
>do the update usually solves that.
> 
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>
If you have a lot of deps that are giving you problems, you can use the 
output from yum and paste it in a shell script that you want to use. I 
do this regularly for development because of the excessive amount of dep 
problems. See attached script.
copy output from yum for packages to be upgraded. You may need to run 
yum -y update to not show a lot of downloading header information. Paste 
the output from yum in terminal into the script. Search and replace as 
in example. Save script after editing. Run script and then deal with 
remaining packages.

This is easier for me than to do than add --exclude=..... for the many 
dep conflicts.

Jim

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