Re: Updating Firefox

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On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 12:16 -0600, Aly Dharshi wrote:
> Aly Dharshi wrote:
> > Hello Folks,
> > 
> >     I hope that you are well. Using yum to update firefox to the latest 
> > in F7. I see the following errors:
> > 
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Resolving Dependencies
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: devhelp
> > --> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: yelp
> > --> Processing Dependency: firefox = 2.0.0.5-1.fc7 for package: 
> > firefox-devel
> > ---> Package firefox.i386 0:2.0.0.8-1.fc7 set to be updated
> > --> Running transaction check
> > ---> Package firefox-devel.i386 0:2.0.0.8-1.fc7 set to be updated
> > --> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: devhelp
> > --> Processing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 for package: yelp
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 is needed by package yelp
> > Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.1.5 is needed by package 
> > devhelp
> > 
> >     Has anyone seen this same problem where the above mentioned pkgs are 
> > missing from the repos ? Or is it just me ? Thanks.
> > 
> >     Cheers,
> >     
> >     Aly.
> > 
> 
> 	Okay further to my woes, I did a yum clean all, it cleaned up 
> everything, tried to do a yum update for firefox and I got zippo the 
> hippo for updates for this now. I have yum update running now and its 
> getting other things but not firefox, any thoughts ? Could I have simply 
> hit a dog slow updating mirror ?

Possibly.  Note that the gecko-libs stuff comes from Firefox and will
break a lot of dependencies.  It's best to "yum --exclude=firefox*
update" for now until all the packages that depend on gecko-libs get
rebuilt.

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