Firefox required for latest F8 updates
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Jul 9 20:28:30 UTC 2008
Remi Collet wrote:
>>> For some reason, the latest F8 update wants to pull in Firefox 2 i386
>>> package from F8 updates:
>
> Latest devhelp, yelp (and some others) requires gecko-libs 2.0.0.15
> which could be provided by :
> - firefox-2.0.0.15 from official fedora updates
> - firefox2-2.0.0.15 from my little repo
>
> So, if you use FF3 from my repo :
> yum --enable repo update firefox2
>
> Yum decision could seem strange, but gecko-libs virtual provide is not
> arch dependent (should be something like gecko-libs-x86_64).
>
> Regards
>
>
Well I am having an issue with this upgrade. I have your version of
firefox2-2.0.0.15-1.fc8.remi
firefox-3.0-1.fc8.remi
Even after having both of these installed, I still get
yum update devhelp
Loading "list-data" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading "downloadonly" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package devhelp.i386 0:0.16.1-8.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libxpcom.so for package: devhelp
--> Processing Dependency: libgtkembedmoz.so for package: devhelp
--> Running transaction check
---> Package firefox.i386 0:2.0.0.15-1.fc8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
devhelp i386 0.16.1-8.fc8 updates
198 k
Installing for dependencies:
firefox i386 2.0.0.15-1.fc8 updates
21 M
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 1 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 21 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error:
package firefox-3.0-1.fc8.remi.x86_64 (which is newer than
firefox-2.0.0.15-1.fc8.i386) is already installed
Error Summary
-------------
So I guess there is an issue with the RPM package.
To me it is
--
Robin Laing
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