Yum errors

[James Bridge]

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 06:01 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >From the Logwatch email message, I deduced that yum was not performing
> nightly updates. A check in yum.log confirmed this.
> 
> So I tried doing a yum update by hand. I got the following errors
> reported:
> 
> Error: Missing Dependency: commons-modeler = 1.0-8 is needed by package commons-modeler-devel
> Error: Missing Dependency: commons-digester = 1.4.1-13 is needed by package commons-digester-devel
> Error: Missing Dependency: commons-fileupload = 1.0-8 is needed by package commons-fileupload-devel
> Error: Missing Dependency: commons-collections = 2.1-12 is needed by package commons-collections-devel
> Error: Missing Dependency: commons-pool = 1.1-3 is needed by package commons-pool-devel
> Error: Missing Dependency: commons-beanutils = 1.6.1-13 is needed by package commons-beanutils-devel
> Error: Missing Dependency: commons-dbcp = 1.1-3 is needed by package commons-dbcp-devel
> 
> 1) How can missing dependencies arise like this?
> 2) What should I do to correct the situation? (Erasing
> commons-modeler-devel et. al. seems logical, but I can't think why
> they are there in the first place)
> 3) Why don't I get notified by email that there was a problem with the
> nightly updates?
> -- 
> Colin Adams
> Preston Lancashire
> 

Yum probably sends email messages to the localsystem mailbox and you
need to set up an extra account in your mail reader (Evolution?) to tell
it to check there.
-- 
James Bridge <james at xmas.demon.co.uk>