On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 19:13 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > David Timms wrote: > > > If you use the graphical pup (software updater), it is pretty easy to > > uncheck the problematic packages, so that the update (sans those two > > packages) will actually complete. > > Actually the problem seems more difficult, in my case at least. > "yum update" is still looking for packages required by nfs-utils, > even though it is not looking for nfs-utils itself. > Does anyone understand this? > > -------------------------------------------- > Resolving Dependencies > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Package libgssapi.i386 0:0.9-1.FC5 set to be updated > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 for package: nfs-utils > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > Error: Missing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 is needed by package nfs-utils > -------------------------------------------- > The problem is that it it trying to update nfs-utils-lib and libgssapi but not updating nfs-utils to match due to a naming/dependency error on the repo. Yum does not see the nfs-utils package as being newer so it ignores the new package. > I should say that this doesn't worry me in the least - > I am perfectly happy to wait until nfs-utils is sorted out. > But I am puzzled as to why yum is looking for packages > required by nfs-utils, but not for nfs-utils itself. > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland >
