Missing Dependency

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 01:24 -0400, Dan wrote:
> Bob Fletcher wrote:
> >> You don't need the debuginfo and source repos; they're for developers
> >> really.
> >>     
> >
> > OK, thanks.
> >
> >   
> >> Can you post the full output you get for:
> >> # yum update
> >> Paul.
> >>     
> >
> > Paul,
> > Attached is a file with the output that you requested.
> > {I guess it is okay to send it as an attachment.)
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
> >   
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > [root at localhost ~]# yum update
> > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Setting up repositories
> > livna                                                                [1/7]
> > livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > flash                                                                [2/7]
> > flash                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > core                                                                 [3/7]
> > core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> > jpackage-fedora                                                      [4/7]
> > jpackage-fedora           100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > jpackage-generic                                                     [5/7]
> > jpackage-generic          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > extras                                                               [6/7]
> > extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> > updates                                                              [7/7]
> > ftp://ftp.tecnoera.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] timed out
> > Trying other mirror.
> > updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > Reading repository metadata in from local files
> > primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 366 kB    00:02
> > jpackage-g: ################################################## 1597/1597
> > Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 2.36 seconds
> > Resolving Dependencies
> > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> > ---> Package geronimo-specs.noarch 0:1.0-0.M2.3jpp set to be updated
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc for package: geronimo-specs-compat
> > --> Processing Dependency: xmlbeans for package: geronimo-specs
> > --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> > ---> Package xmlbeans.noarch 0:1.0.4-2jpp set to be updated
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc for package: geronimo-specs-compat
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc is needed by package geronimo-specs-compat
> >   
> Yum appears to be trying to update
> 
> geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc
> 
> to
> 
> 1.0-0.M2.3jpp
> 
> but, geronimo-specs-compat (that is installed) requires the old version, 
> and does not appear to have a new version that will work with the new 
> geronimo-specs. Try doing:
> yum remove geronimo-specs-compat
> and see if it has any dependencies to remove.

The new geronimo-specs package is probably coming from the JPackage
repo, so you could also try disabling JPackage and see how things go:

# yum --disablerepo=jpackage\* update

Paul.