Yum cannot resolve missing dependencies

[Levin Fritz]

Hi,

> When I type yum update, it starts resolving dependencies, and after a time it 
> stops and spits out a whole list of errors (see below)
> 
> <yum.con>
> [French-Fedora-Mirror]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> baseurl=http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/3/$basearch/
> name=Fedora extras - $releasever - $basearch
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/3/$basearch
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras
[snip]

I think you messed up your yum configuration. It should contain at least
two repositories: base and updates-released. Your yum.conf contains only
one repo, called "French-Fedora-Mirror".

Here's what my /etc/yum.conf looks like:
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1

Here's /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo:
[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Here's /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo:
[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc
$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

You can also put all of that in /etc/yum.conf.

This is on Fedora Core 4, but I think it should also work under FC 3.

HTH,
Levin