More yum questions

Chuck Campbell campbell at accelinc.com
Thu May 13 15:08:10 UTC 2004


I like this tool, but I'm still not sure I understand it.  I thought it was 
supposed to resolve dependencies by itself? 

my yum.conf is included at the bottom of this email, in case it is needed to
understand what I'm doing wrong.

I did a yum check-update and I see the following:

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base
Server: Dag APT Repository
Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Name                                Arch   Version                  Repo        
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
automake14                          noarch 1.4p6-8.99_2.rh9.at      atrpms-stable-rhl-9
automake15                          noarch 1.5-9.99_2.rh9.at        atrpms-stable-rhl-9
gstreamer-plugins                   i386   0.6.3-2.dag.rh90         dag         
tetex                               i386   2.0.2-32.rh9.at          atrpms-stable-rhl-9


then I do a yum update and I get this:

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: ATrpms stable for rhl 9
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base
Server: Dag APT Repository
Server: Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
.....Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package gstreamer-plugins needs libfame-0.9.so.0, this is not available.
Package tetex-afm needs tetex = 1.0.7, this is not available.
Package tetex-latex needs tetex = 1.0.7, this is not available.


yum.conf:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1

[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/

[updates]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/

[freshrpms-rhl-9]
name=Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux 9
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/freshrpms/

[atrpms-stable-rhl-9]
name=ATrpms stable for rhl 9
baseurl=http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/redhat/9/en/i386/at-stable/

[dag]
name=Dag APT Repository
baseurl=http://dag.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/en/i386/dag
  http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/9/en/i386/dag/

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
#gpgcheck=1

[livna-unstable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable
#gpgcheck=1

[livna-testing]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing
#gpgcheck=1 





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