dependancies

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:01:49 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> >> >> I am trying to do an update using YUM and I get the following
> >> >> message..
> >> >> 
> >> >> gnome-panel-2.10.1-10.2.i 100% |=========================|  76 kB
> >> >> 00:00
> >> >> ---> Package gnome-panel.i386 0:2.10.1-10.2 set to be updated
> >> >> --> Running transaction check
> >> >> --> Processing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.8 for package: galeon
> >> >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> >> >> Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.8 is needed by package
> >> >> galeon
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> What do I have to do to get by this?
> >> >> 
> >> >> Do I have to update mozilla?  I have asked YUM to do this but no luck.
> >> >> If I have to go out there somewhere to get mozilla, where is the best
> >> >> place to get it?
> >> >> 
> >> >> Bottom line - what do I have to do to get passed this "Error"..
> >> > 
> >> > You have to either:
> >> > * wait for an updated galeon package to appear in Fedora Extras that is
> >> > compatible with the updated mozilla packages (probably a day or two),
> >> > or * remove galeon from your system
> >> 
> >> Wouldn't it be easier to exclude galeon from the update
> >> by adding the line "exclude=galeon*" to /etc/yum.conf ?
> > 
> > No, that wouldn't work. He already has galeon installed, and updating
> > mozilla would break the dependencies of that already-installed package,
> > so yum won't do it. The exclude would only stop yum updating galeon
> > itself, and the problem is that there's no update of galeon available.
> 
> I'm sure you know better than me.
> But my reading of the error message above
> is that yum was unable to update galeon
> because it could not find the required version of mozilla.

Message says that yum was going to update mozilla, and the installed
galeon needs a different version than was going to be installed. Hence
it refuses to update mozilla, since it would break galeon's dependencies.