Can't Get Past X dependencies

[DI Mario Bruckschwaiger]

Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Maybe someone can provide a little help or direction.  I have read all 
> of the messages on this list and the development list this week but 
> still can't get past the following (from yumex output) when trying to 
> update to latest rawhide.
> 
> 
> ['fontconfig conflicts with fonts-xorg-base',
> 'Missing Dependency: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by package 
> xorg-x11',
> 'Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-xfs = 6.8.2-62 is needed by package 
> xorg-x11',
> 'Missing Dependency: xinitrc is needed by package xorg-x11',
> 'Missing Dependency: xorg-x11 is needed by package xorg-x11-tools', 
> 'Missing Dependency: xorg-x11 = 6.8.2-62 is needed by package 
> xorg-x11-Xnest']
> 
> I deselected fontconfig and that conflict goes away, but the others remain.
> 
> TIA
> 


I had the same problems. What helped was to create a directory, download 
the files you want to update and new xorg-x11-xxxx and libXxxxx files 
which are also needed and rpm -U *.rpm. In my case there were over 100 
packages.