Yum update fails - Missing Dependency
Hi,
I have newly installed Fedora 8 and I'm trying to update my software with a yum update. The process fails with the error: Code:
--> Processing Dependency: gnome-vfs2 = 2.20.0-3.fc8 for package: gnome-vfs2-smb Code:
gnome-vfs2-smb-2.20.1-1.fc8 Much thanks. |
Silly as it may seem, updating yum itself, yum update yum, may help. Apparently the is a bug with yum-3.2.7.
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Thank you for your reply. I should have mentioned that I have already updated yum after reading of a similar problem here on the forums. I am running yum-3.2.8-2.fc8, and the problem still persists.
I've added gnome-vfs2 to the exclude list in yum.conf as a temporary work-around. Now yum knocks me back with the error: Code:
Finished Dependency Resolution I'll continue to add these problem packages to the excludes line in yum.conf. Obviously it would be nice to get this working though! Any more ideas? Cheers. |
Your conclusions are wrong. More often than not, during a yum update it doesn't matter at all what packages are installed already, because yum often replaces or erases packages. This can break dependencies and causes a transaction test to fail. So, to analyse your problems, you need to show what updates wait in the repository.
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Except when it tells you that you can't install kmod-nvidia-1.2.3, for example, because you need kernel-1.2.3, but you can't install kernel-1.2.3 because you don't have kmod-nvidia-1.2.3 installed, or kernel-1.2.3 is already installed but yum doesn't seem to know about it. Quit common lately.
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True, but kernel and kmod packages are a special case. Not only because there is extra code for them in yum (and with F8 a bug in yum broke livna's kmod packages). By default two kernel packages are kept before a kernel update removes an old package. That's very different from normal packages.
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