On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 21:01 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > >> >> I am trying to do an update using YUM and I get the following > >> >> message.. > >> >> > >> >> gnome-panel-2.10.1-10.2.i 100% |=========================| 76 kB > >> >> 00:00 > >> >> ---> Package gnome-panel.i386 0:2.10.1-10.2 set to be updated > >> >> --> Running transaction check > >> >> --> Processing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.8 for package: galeon > >> >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution > >> >> Error: Missing Dependency: mozilla = 37:1.7.8 is needed by package > >> >> galeon > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> What do I have to do to get by this? > >> >> > >> >> Do I have to update mozilla? I have asked YUM to do this but no luck. > >> >> If I have to go out there somewhere to get mozilla, where is the best > >> >> place to get it? > >> >> > >> >> Bottom line - what do I have to do to get passed this "Error".. > >> > > >> > You have to either: > >> > * wait for an updated galeon package to appear in Fedora Extras that is > >> > compatible with the updated mozilla packages (probably a day or two), > >> > or * remove galeon from your system > >> > >> Wouldn't it be easier to exclude galeon from the update > >> by adding the line "exclude=galeon*" to /etc/yum.conf ? > > > > No, that wouldn't work. He already has galeon installed, and updating > > mozilla would break the dependencies of that already-installed package, > > so yum won't do it. The exclude would only stop yum updating galeon > > itself, and the problem is that there's no update of galeon available. > > I'm sure you know better than me. > But my reading of the error message above > is that yum was unable to update galeon > because it could not find the required version of mozilla. Not so; Michael has addressed that one. > [One of the few weaknesses of yum > is that if there is one package it cannot update > then it will not update any. > I don't really understand why it doesn't update > those packages it can update, > and just leave a message about the packages it has failed to update. > But maybe this would just be too complicated for yum to work out?] I think this should be possible too. In this case, mozilla and anything that depends on it should not be updated but it should be possible to install any other updates. Why not raise a bug report? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
