Re: libgssapi.so.1 is needed by package nfs-utils

["Kam Leo" <kam leo gmail com>]

On 6/30/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz pobox com> wrote:
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> Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > No amount of "exclude=anything" seems to help?
> >
> > yum update  --exclude=*nfs* --exclude=*xine*
> >
> > It looks to me like the only option is "do nothing" and wait?
> >
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 for package: nfs-utils
> > --> Processing Dependency: libdirectfb-0.9.so.24 for package: xine-lib
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libdirectfb-0.9.so.24 is needed by package
> > xine-lib
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libgssapi.so.1 is needed by package nfs-utils
>
> I'm not sure why the libdirectfb dependency is causing you problems.
> It's provided by directfb in extras, which hasn't been updated since
> since the release of FC5, as near as I can tell.
>
> To work around the nfs-utils and libgssapi dependency problem, I
> excluded libgssapi and nfs-utils*.
>
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I filed a bug against yum:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197421
A user should not have to also exclude dependencies if the primary
package is excluded.