missing dependency python(abi) = 2.5 for package: ...

Sat Jan 3 00:42:51 UTC 2009

On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 19:00 -0500, Fulko Hew wrote:
> The trouble is that it is complaining about
> "Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5"
> for a vast number of packages.  Yum updated the system
> to python 2.5.2 but that doesn't help me to understand what
> package??? "python(abi)" is?
> At first I thought it was an unusually named package, then I thought
> It was a version of python, but downgrading python didn't help either.

It is a virtual Provides provided by the python package.

> It seems as thought the rawhide packages need python 2.5
> and I now have python 2.5.2 installed???

No, they need 2.6. The python package is getting updated, but other
packages that depend on python are not, therefore leading them to depend
on an older python(abi).

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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