On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 23:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > But now it seems to say that iptstate requires libnetfilter_conntrack. > So why didn't it say that before when I yum-installed iptstate? It didn't say that before because you already had libnetfilter_conntrack installed. You must have had it, because you had already had iptstate installed, which requires it. When you removed iptstate, it did not remove libnetfilter_conntrack (which does *not* require iptstate - the dependency is "one way"). When you then installed iptstate again, yum saw that you already had the required libnetfilter_conntrack installed, so the dependency was satisfied. When you ran "yum update", yum saw a new version of libnetfilter_conntrack was available and tried to update it. But - uh oh - iptstate requires a *certain version* of libnetfilter_conntrack, and the *new* version of libnetfilter_conntrack does not satisfy that dependency! So yum complained, and rightly so. What should have happened was for a new version of iptstate to become available at the same time as the new libnetfilter_conntrack. The new iptstate package is now in updates, BTW, though not yet on all the mirrors. BTW, if, when you removed iptstate, you had *also* removed libnetfilter_conntrack, then tried to reinstall both, you would have seen the problem, because yum would have had to get libnetfilter_conntrack from the repo and would have gotten the new version. The version that remained installed when you removed/installed iptstate was the old version. > yum is a great tool, in my view, and one of the best things about fedora. > But it is a bit confusing when a program seems to contradict itself. No contradiction. The logic is correct (and actually quite straightforward once you wrap your mind around it). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
