Yum update

[Michael Schwendt]

On 07/09/2007, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/09/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When exactly?
> >
> > Without details one can only guess what you're trying to do. It looks
> > like FC6. But FC6 comes with matching firefox updates (also yelp
> > e.g.), so what repositories do you use? Do you try to upgrade to an
> > incompatible firefox?
> >
>
> Sorry. FC6, stock repos, stock firefox. All software on that machine
> has been added by yum, from the stock repos.

Convince me.

FC6 Released Updates include:

  firefox-1.5.0.12-4.fc6 (late July, provides "gecko-libs = 1.8.0.12")
  devhelp-0.12-11.fc6 (end of May)
  yelp-2.16.0-13.fc6 (end of May)

There is no firefox related broken dependency listed for Fedora 6 (a
script is run regularly for Fedora Extras 6 and also covers Fedora
Core 6).

> Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.0.12 is needed by package yelp
> Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.0.12 is needed by package devhelp

Such error messages are very often misinterpreted by users. This can
also mean that some upgrade package _takes away_ the needed gecko-libs
by upgrading it to a higher version. With firefox this has happened
before when users enabled a repository for experimental packages of
Firefox 2.