[K12OSN] Trouble in River City... yum update

[Eric Harrison]

Angus Carr wrote:
> Calvin Dodge wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 12:14:56AM -0600, Angus Carr wrote:
>>
>>
>>> ahodson at elp.rr.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Folks:
>>>>
>>>> Whenever I try to update yum I am getting:
>>>>
>>>> Error: Missing Dependency: python < 0:2.4 is needed by package
>>>> python-reportlab
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmmm, me too. I'm just setting up a FC4->k12ltsp setup, and I can
>>> install k12ltsp-core and k12ltsp-extras, but none of the other
>>> metapackages.
>>> I'm also getting key errors, but I can just disable the key check.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I had this problem, too.  I _believe_ that the python-reportlab
>> package which
>> is in the k12ltsp distro is based on Python 2.3, while Fedora Core 4
>> comes
>> with Python 2.4.
>>
>> I solved this by installing the python-reportlab from the Fedora Extras
>> repository (THAT one is based on Python 2.4). After that, the other
>> k12ltsp
>> installs went just fine.
>>
>> Calvin
>>
>>
>>
> So... I went into yumex, disbled all but the extras repository (the
> fedora extras, not the k12ltsp extras... see another email I sent) and
> then installed python-reportlab apparently successfully. Yumex let me
> choose the version (1.2).
>
> Tada!
>
> Now for the rest of the extras and so on...
>
> Angus Carr.
>


Hmmm, I'm not sure why the Fedora Extras repository would be causing a
problem here.

I'll take a look at it later after I finish compiling & testing the
firefox update...


-Eric
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