On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 09:35, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 11:25, Ian Pilcher wrote: > > Chris Jones wrote: > > > For the last couple of days, I have been trying to apply an update > > > flagged by the RHN Up2date icon for pppd-2.4.2-3-FC2.1. However, when I > > > go through the up2date process, it stops with a warning saying: > > > There was a package dependency problem. The message was: > > > Unresolvable chain of dependancies: > > > initscripts-7.53-1 requires pppd < 2.3.9 > > > > > > Is this a "bug" with up2date? If not, how do I overcome this error? > > > > > > > initscripts-7.53-1 actually *conflicts* with pppd < 2.3.9, rather than > > requiring it. There's a problem with the new ppp package that's > > triggering the conflict, but there's also a bug in up2date that's > > reporting it as a requirement rather than a conflict. > > yep, yum shows it as a conflict. This is a tip from Pedro Macedo I got that worked: "Same answer I'm giving to everyone else: It's a know bug. Has been fixed and a fix is in CVS. Meanwhile , use yum --exclude=initscripts --exclude=ppp --exclude=pppd upgrade to update your system , while the corrected package isnt available. -- Pedro Macedo"
