On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:29:06AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > as a followup to the recent flurry of posts regarding third-party > yum repos, here's the situation i'm in right now -- perhaps someone > can explain what i should have done differently. > > on one FC4 box, i had added a number of third-party repos, including > axel thimm's base and updates repos. because of that, when i did a > "yum update" recently, one of the updates i got was for libtool from > axel's updates repo: > > # rpm -q libtool > libtool-1.5.18-2.99_11.rhfc4.at That's not from "base" or "updates", which are vanilla redhat.com mirrors, but from "atrpms". > the problem with this libtool update is that it has a dependency > *specifically* of gcc-4.0.0. at this point, i can no longer do a > regular yum update since the fedora updates-released repo has an > updated gcc-4.0.1-fc4 *and* an updated libtool-1.5.16... > > at this point, yum won't update gcc since the current libtool > (axel's) *absolutely* requires the current gcc-4.0.0, and yum won't > update libtool since it must figure that the current version > (1.5.18...) is newer than fedora's 1.5.16. > > in short, having updated libtool from axel's repo has pretty much > screwed me in terms of doing an unassisted update at this point. > thoughts? ATrpms needs to rebuild libtool against the latest gcc updates. Until then you should downgrade libtool to 1.5.16.multilib2-2. Try using smart to resolve this: yum install smart smart update smart upgrade Loading cache... Updating cache... ######################################## [100%] Computing transaction... Upgrading packages (32): apr libgfortran apr-devel libgnat audit-libs libmudflap cpp libmudflap-devel gcc libobjc gcc-c++ libstdc++ gcc-gfortran libstdc++-devel gcc-gnat mgetty gcc-java mgetty-sendfax gcc-objc mgetty-viewfax gnome-panel mgetty-voice gnome-panel-devel system-config-bind libgcc system-config-printer libgcj system-config-printer-gui libgcj-devel tar libgcj-src util-linux Downgrading packages (1): libtool 63.6MB of package files are needed. 571.8kB will be used. Confirm changes? (Y/n): > rday > > p.s. the update on a more generic, stock FC4 box works fine since > the version of libtool on *that* system is the regular FC version, > hence yum is happy to update it along with gcc and a bunch of others. > -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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