Curious yum problem

[Guillermo Garron]

On 9/1/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Guillermo Garron wrote:
>
> >> I just installed FC-5 on a new disk,
> >> and when I tried "yum update" it failed because, it reported,
> >> kdebase required htdig .
> >>
> >> On the other hand, I can update kdebase on other FC-5 systems
> >> which I have kept up-to-date.
> >>
> >> It doesn't particularly matter - I as able to update nearly everything
> >> by "yum update [a-j]\*", etc,
> >> but I am puzzled why this problem arises,
> >> and interested to know if there is a simple way
> >> of determining exactly what is looking for what?
> >> (It seemed that other packages were looking for htdig.)
>
> > I think i have seen this before,
> >
> > some dependencies are not resolved by YUM it just inform you do not
> > have it, but do not fetch it.
> >
> > What i did in that situations is to *manually* install the required
> > package.
> >
> > $ yum install htdig
> > and then
> > $ yum update
>
> Thanks for your response.
> I tried your recipe, but unfortunately it did not work.
> I found in the end that somewhere along the line
> I lost /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo ,
> goodness knows where or how.
>
> I looked this up on a working FC-5 system,
> and found it came with fedora-release-5.5 .
> When I downloaded this and ran "rpm --force -ivh fedora-release-5.5"
> all was well.
Glad to read that!
regards,
GG