Unable to update system with YUM (Dependency?)

chess380 · 09-23-2006, 11:46 AM

Background:
Yesterday I recently installed Fedora Core 5 onto my machine(with all of the -packages). Then I installed the yum configuration (livina) from fedorafaq.org. Then I installed the latest kernel 2.6.17. I did all this through Yum. Now when I try to update my system I have this problem

Problem:
When I open a terminal, login as root, and I type the command "yum update." It starts listing the updates to be installed and then it gives me a dependency message:

--> Processing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc for package: geronimo-specs-compat
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc for package: geronimo-specs-compat
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc is needed by package geronimo-specs-compat

I tried to "yum install geronimo-specs" but then it tells me:
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package geronimo-specs.noarch 0:1.0-0.M2.3jpp set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc for package: geronimo-specs-compat
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: geronimo-specs = 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc is needed by package geronimo-specs-compat
I then tried to "yum install geronimo-specs-compat" but I had the same problem.

Now I just don't know what to do.

Any help would be gladly accepted.

macemoneta · 09-23-2006, 05:25 PM

Disable the livna repository and any other added repositories. You can do this by editing the repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and changing 'enabled=1' to 'enabled=0'. Alternatively, you can disable them on the command line:

yum -y --disablerepo=livna update

You generally don't want to enable third-party repositories when performing a system-wide update. When you want to install or update something from a third-party repository, you can enable it. For example:

yum -y --enablerepo=livna install somesoftware