On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 06:01 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > >From the Logwatch email message, I deduced that yum was not performing > nightly updates. A check in yum.log confirmed this. > > So I tried doing a yum update by hand. I got the following errors > reported: > > Error: Missing Dependency: commons-modeler = 1.0-8 is needed by package commons-modeler-devel > Error: Missing Dependency: commons-digester = 1.4.1-13 is needed by package commons-digester-devel > Error: Missing Dependency: commons-fileupload = 1.0-8 is needed by package commons-fileupload-devel > Error: Missing Dependency: commons-collections = 2.1-12 is needed by package commons-collections-devel > Error: Missing Dependency: commons-pool = 1.1-3 is needed by package commons-pool-devel > Error: Missing Dependency: commons-beanutils = 1.6.1-13 is needed by package commons-beanutils-devel > Error: Missing Dependency: commons-dbcp = 1.1-3 is needed by package commons-dbcp-devel > > 1) How can missing dependencies arise like this? > 2) What should I do to correct the situation? (Erasing > commons-modeler-devel et. al. seems logical, but I can't think why > they are there in the first place) > 3) Why don't I get notified by email that there was a problem with the > nightly updates? > -- > Colin Adams > Preston Lancashire > Yum probably sends email messages to the localsystem mailbox and you need to set up an extra account in your mail reader (Evolution?) to tell it to check there. -- James Bridge <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
