Package updater broke?

[John Bowden]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 20:32 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> John Bowden wrote:
> > Hi List.
> > I have been off line for nearly two weeks due to my broad band
> > connection failing. As soon as I got my connection up I went to the
> > Software updater to check for any up dates and as expected it gave me a
> > long list. First I selected all the packages but kept getting error
> > messages complaining about unresolved dependencies. I then selected each
> > package one at a time and get the same unresolved dependencies message
> > for each package (I have tried the first 12 packages so far). I thought
> > the package updater was supposed to sort out the dependencies
> > automatically? Any ideas whats wrong?
> > john
> > 
> > 
> 
> You might try to open a root terminal and run yum clean all. Maybe there 
> are old headers left over since the time you last updated that it is 
> using as reference to packages.
> 
> After cleaning up the headers, you might as well try running yum update 
> from the CLI since you are already there. You will probably get more 
> descriptive error outputs from the output of yum if it still fails.
> 
> Jim
> 
> -- 
> If you don't have time to do it right, where are you going to find the time
> to do it over?
> 
After posting my last email I had a quick look at "man yum" and then
tried yum update after su-ing. It did update most but failed on a lot of
others. will try your clean all command