Re: Fedora Legacy Update : kdelibs dependency problems

["A.E.Lawrence" <A E Lawrence lboro ac uk>]

David Eisenstein wrote:
> A E Lawrence wrote:
> 
>>>Synopsis:          Updated kdelibs packages fix security issues
>>>Advisory ID:       FLSA:178606
>>
>>download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/3/updates/x86_64/kdelibs-3.4.2-1.fc3.1.legacy.x86_64.rpm
>>
>>
>>Trying to update (yum) the kdelibs and kdelibs-devel rpms fails on a
>>AMD64 FC3 legacy system because all the other kde packages appear to
>>require kdebase-3.3.1-4.3.FC3.
>>
>>I can't see anyone else reporting this problem in the archives of this
>>list, so I am mystified. I suspect that I can force the upgrade without
>>breaking anything by a manual "rpm -Fhv --nodeps ...", but I shouldn't
>>need to do this, should I?

Thanks to every one for the replies. Unfortunately, the Maxtor hard disc
on the machine failed, and I have rebuilt the machine with a current
distribution, so the legacy issue is no longer relevant.

ael
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