Strange package dependency problem

[Neal D. Becker]

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Andrew Farris wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 12:19 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> 
>> While trying to upgrade to the latest rawhide packages with up2date
>> today I encountered the following:
>> 
>> There was a package dependency problem.  The message was:
>> 
>> Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
>> XFree86-4.3.0-64                         requires XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-64
>> XFree86-devel-4.3.0-64                   requires XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-64
>> XFree86-twm-4.3.0-64                     requires XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-64
>> XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-64                     requires XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-64
>> 
>> Please modify your package selections and try again.
>> 
>> I had upgraded to the complete set of XFree86-4.3.0-64 packages I use
>> (including all the above mentioned) without problems yesterday.
>> 
>> Anybody else seen this?
>> 
>> Alexander
> 
> XFree86-libs is probably being removed in favor of xorg packages.  Try
> updating with ignoring all the xorg packages and see if the dependencies
> still arise.  Otherwise update directly to all the xorg package set
> (either download locally and use rpm -Uvh xorg*.rpm or yum install
> xorg*).
> 
> Verify you are connected to a mirror that is in sync and has all the
> xorg packages available.  I updated tonight from the USC mirror (the
> up2date sources entry for this mirror is below).
> yum fedora-development
>
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1.90/i386/yum/updates

I modified my yum update entry as above, and I still see the same result
(above) reported by others.
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