On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:53:01AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > over a week since my last FC4 "yum update", and this morning's > > attempt generates: > > > > ... > > ---> Package gcc-c++.i386 0:4.0.2-8.fc4 set to be updated > > --> Running transaction check > > --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.1 for package: libtool > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > > Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.1 is needed by package libtool > > > > > > so the update would obviously update gcc from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2, but this > > wouldn't go down well with libtool. i could just update and exclude > > libtool, unless someone knows if this would cause any breakage. > > Do you have libtool excluded in yum config or something similar? > There is libtool-1.5.16.multilib2-3 in the FC4 updates repository > which depends on 4.0.2, so when you update both gcc and libtool all > dependencies are satisfied. ok, figured it out. the libtool on my FC4 system was not the standard one, but one from axel thimm's AT repo which had a slightly higher version number and therefore took precedence over the FC updates one. argh. is there some kind of protocol that dictates when third-party repoes should and shouldn't override packages that should be found in the standard FC repoes? rday
