Re: Dependency resolution failed

[stan <goedigi89__e cox net>]

Luis Orlindo Tedeschi wrote:
> Folks; I've been trying to update Fedora 9 since last week and I keep
> getting Dependency Resolution Failed. It says Missing Dependency:
> tcl-devel = 1:8.5.1 is needed by package 1:tk-devel: 8.5.1-4.fc9.i386.
> Does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks in advance.
>
>   
It is trivial to do the following.  (as root)
yum list updates > updates
Edit updates to leave only the packages.  Put #! /bin/bash at the top.  
Replace the version of the package with *, and add yum -y update in 
front of each package.  In vim, recording a macro to do this takes less 
than a minute.
Save the file.
Change the mode on updates to executable   chmod +x updates
./updates

This is a little inefficient as it runs yum on individual packages that 
have been pulled in for dependencies already, but it will update 
everything except the invalid package.

When I was using rawhide I automated this with scripts and python 
programs (well, more sophisticated than this).  There are almost always 
dependency errors in rawhide, so you would never get any updates if you 
didn't do something like this.