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

[glenn]

Fulko Hew wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Greg <spowd at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 3/01/2009 10:13 AM, Fulko Hew wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Greg<spowd at bigpond.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On 3/01/2009 9:54 AM, Fulko Hew wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I decided to enable rawhide on my test F10 system, and do a
>>>>>yum update.
>>>>>
>>>>>I get a lot of dependency failures like:
>>>>>
>>>>>setroubleshoot-2.0.12-3.fc10.noarch from installed has depsolving
>>>>>problems
>>>>>  -->   Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package
>>>>>setroubleshoot-2.0.12-3.fc10.noarch (installed)
>>>>>
>>>>>Any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA
>>>>>Fulko
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>why did you enable rawhide? this isnt a support channel. use the irc
>>>>channel
>>>>or fedoraforum
>>>>
>>>
>>>Sorry.  I thought fedora-test was for testing rawhide?  ;-(
>>>
>>>
>>
>>it is but your not giving much details of what you are actually testing?. by
>>the looks of it you have fc10 rpms
> 
> 
> I thought I'd be testing F11 (as updated from F10 via rawhide.
> 
> 
>>from what i understand you were using fedora10 an installed Fedora11 from
>>enabling rawhide. correct method for testing Fedora11 is downloading the
>>boot.iso an installing fc11
> 
> 
> Oh!  I was led to believe from
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide#To_update_to_rawhide_via_yum
> 
> that I could move to Rawhide from F10
> 
> 
>>that way an testing it alongside fc10. you say
>>your getting a lot of deps but what exactly did you install from rawhide
>>repo?
> 
> 
> Technically, I didn't install anything from rawhide, I simply enabled the
> rawhide repo as per the URL above, and did 'yum update'.
> 
> 
>>if you can figure that one out im sure you'll fix it
> 
> 
> 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 seems as thought the rawhide packages need python 2.5
> and I now have python 2.5.2 installed???
> 
> So I'm at a loss to understand exactly what's missing/wrong.
> 
> (My ultimate goal was to find out if KDE 4.2 was packaged for testing
> yet, and if so, did it now contain fixes for the missing functionality,
> that KDE 3.5 has, that I need/want in 4.x.)
> 

Just to add to your confusion :-(

I did your route.  I installed F10 distro.  I then changed the repo to 
rawhide, then attempted to use yum update.  Initially I got a lot of 
conflicts between F10 and F11, but I simply used 'yum erase xxxxx' 
because I was at an early stage, and then tried 'yum update' again. 
This I time succeeded, except for items like 'python abi=2.5'.

That is basically where I am these days, after a lot of running yum 
updates on any given day.  It would take me time, much more than you 
would have to spare, to do the following:
     yum list updates >yum.list
then with a window open on 'yum.list', I would use
     yum -y update x\*
where would be the first one or more letters of a subset of files I 
wished to update.  That is a painful method and uses regular expressions 
to make a quick selection list.

Ideally, I should have a script try each file, individually.  But that 
would take hours and as it is, sometimes I spend to 2 or 3 hrs to work 
through the list of updates and seldom get below 300 pkgs waiting for 
dependencies.

In your case, you might wish to use koji.  I might remove the blocking 
issues so you can get a look at the area you are interested.  Unlike me, 
you are not a concerned the F11 development is 'pure rawhide'.

-- 
Glenn Simpson VE3DSP
Hamilton, Ont