Re: update doesn't really work

[Eric Rostetter <rostetter mail utexas edu>]

Quoting David Howland <dhowland ecs umass edu>:

> I've set up a 7.3 machine to update to the fedora-legacy project using
> yum.  It doesn't really seem to work at all.

There are rare problems.

> .....identical dependency loop exceeded
> package mozilla-psm needs mozilla-nss = 1.0.2-2.7.3 (not provided)
> package mozilla-psm needs mozilla-nss = 1.0.2-2.7.3 (not provided)

This is a common problem with old RH mozilla installs.  Easiest way
to fix it is something like: remove all old mozilla packages, then
issue a "yum install mozilla" to reinstall it, adding install commands
for any others you may need also (the mozilla-* packages).  Then 
redo your yum update.

This is very rare, in that very few packages cause this kind of problem.
Mozilla is a very common one though.  It is caused by bad "requires"
by Red Hat in the older packages...

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Eric Rostetter