yum and broken deps

[Jim Cornette]

Tim Lauridsen wrote:

>>> I think the problem with yum and the skip-broken resides because of
>>> these dep errors put out by package-cleanup. Why the packages all
>>> installed with a one by one script confused me.

>>> Missing dependencies:
>>> Package gnome-applets requires libgucharmap.so.5
>>> Package frysk requires libgcj.so.7rh

>>> locate libgucharmap.so
>>> /usr/lib/libgucharmap.so.6
>>> /usr/lib/libgucharmap.so.6.0.1

>>> locate libgcj.so
>>> /usr/lib/libgcj.so.8rh
>>> /usr/lib/libgcj.so.8rh.0.0

>> Maybe you just got lucky, as I am currently upgrading gucharmap and
>> libgcj (and the new versions of frysk and gnome-applets too!)and I used
>> the yum --skip-broken.
>> The yum plugin seems to work quite a bit faster for me, but I'm still
>> not convinced it's properly excluding some packages that it should and
>> at least 2 packages it has seriously broken yum to the point that yum
>> threw a python exception.
>>
>> Scott

It was either luck or the one by one script that I used. to finish up 
the packages starting with g. I got most of the others installed wit a-f 
and k-z requests prior to running the script.

>>
>>   
> I have just checked in a smarter edition of the skip-broken plugin in 
> yum-utils upstream CVS.
> The output from the plugin is now much better.
> 
> I you want to test it you can grab it here.
> http://devel.linux.duke.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/yum-utils/plugins/skip-broken/
> 
> Just copy the .py file to /usr/lib/yum-plugins and the .conf to 
> /etc/yum/plugin.conf.d
> 
> 
> Tim
> 

I downloaded the CVS version also so I can try it when the next update 
run has conflicts. There are 80 packages currently being installed 
without present conflict.

Jim