yum update stuck !!!!

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On 16/01/2008, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> > kusnux wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > i have a problem when i do a yum update. The result is :
> > >
> > > Total download size: 48 M
> > > Is this ok [y/N]: y
> > > Downloading Packages:
> > > Running rpm_check_debug
> > > ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> > > Package libdhcp needs libdhcp4client-3.0.5.so.0, this is not available.
> > > Package nash needs libdhcp4client-3.0.5.so.0, this is not available.
> > > Package mkinitrd needs libdhcp4client-3.0.5.so.0, this is not available.
> > > Package boost needs libicui18n.so.36, this is not available.
> > > Package openoffice.org-core needs libicui18n.so.36, this is not available.
> > > Package openoffice.org-core needs libicule.so.36, this is not available.
> > > Package boost needs libicuuc.so.36, this is not available.
> > > Package openoffice.org-core needs libicuuc.so.36, this is not available.
> > > Complete!
> > >  :-o  :-o  :-o
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >     Not a thing wrong with that.
>
> Are you kidding? A lot of very important information is missing? The
> beginning of the yum output is missing. The version of Fedora is
> missing. The list of repositories is missing. The version of the
> installed packages is missing.

and, as i pointed out in an earlier reply, my updated F8 has versions
that are already newer than the above allegedly unavailable
components (3.0.6 and .38, respectively).  so something is seriously
amiss in the above.

what is the output from:

$ cat /etc/fedora-release

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