Workaround for pilot-link and libwnck yum dependencies
Glen Kim
ogle at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Fri Mar 18 04:58:44 UTC 2005
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 22:50 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> On 03/17/2005 01:47:18 AM, Glen Kim wrote:
>>> Hey guys,
>>> I don't know how many testers figured this out on their own and
>>> just stayed silent about it, but I figured out a simple temporary fix
>>> to update rawhide packages when faced with the missing dependencies
>>> caused by the libwnck and pilot-link updates. Simply wget the
>>> libwnck and pilot-link packages from your favorite development
>>> mirror, then rpm -i them.
>>
>> Does yum sport a switch to install rather than upgrade?
>
> why would you do that? Why would you install the packages?
>
> -sv
In this context, you would do it so you could have different
versions of the libraries side by side so that packages built on the
different versions could install without dependency errors.
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