On 03/11/2007, david walcroft <d_j_w46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> I have just done another 'yum update' for the third time today and yum > >> download 87 updates and cleaned up my dependency problem. > >> I notice that If I wait a couple of days dependency problems tend to > >> resolve them selves. > >> > > > > You are confused. There have not been any huge updates for this. For > > example, "metakit" (see above quote) for stock Fedora 7 is unchanged > > since May 23rd and does NOT require python(abi) = 2.4 (which is Fedora > > Core 6 and older), but python(abi) = 2.5. A simple upgrade to Fedora 7 > > would have replaced it with the f7 package already. Same applies to > > python-imaging-tk (... and I haven't checked the others). > > > > $ rpm -qpR metakit-2.4.9.6-1.fc7.i386.rpm |grep py > > python(abi) = 2.5 > > > > > I had not been able to download for a week hence the 87 rpm's . > I did an upgrade install from FC6 > FC7 at the release of FC7. Have you read the paragraph above? After an "upgrade install from FC6 > FC7 at the release of FC7" you would not have a metakit package which requires python(abi) = 2.4, ... which is one of the problems quoted in your original mail. It is explained above. Perhaps your upgrade was incomplete/interrupted/whatever. But that still doesn't explain why your "yum update" attempt failed and got access to 87 additional packages a few days later. Hence your conclusions wrt updates are wrong.
