Fw: Re: yum upgrade F8->F9

[Florian Gerstenberger]

Hi,

i was having the same problem yesterday. I solved it in this
quick-and-dirty way:

rpm -e --nodeps gnupg2

And afterwards the "yum update" succeeded.

Regards,

Florian

Globe Trotter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I did the following after installing the newkey rpms. 
>  
> %yum install fedora-release\*
>  
> This got the new stuff (rpm) with the newkey in it. It
> worked on one machine, and it is up and running. 
>  
> On a second machine, however, I get the following after
> processing dependencies:
>  
> Finished Dependency Resolution
> gnupg2-2.0.9-2.fc8.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by package gnupg2-2.0.9-2.fc8.i386 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by package gnupg2-2.0.9-2.fc8.i386 (installed)
> 
> That is it. It appears that the gnupg2 in f9 is 2.0.9-1 and the one in f8 is 2-0.9-2 hence the problem. Any suggestions as to how this may be tacked?
> 
> Enabling updates-testing is to no avail. 
>  
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Trotter
> 
>>
>> --- On Tue, 9/16/08, Rahul Sundaram
>> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Rahul Sundaram
>> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>
>>> Subject: Re: yum upgrade F8->F9
>>> To: itsme_410 at yahoo.com, "Community assistance,
>> encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
>> <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>> Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 7:14 PM
>>> Globe Trotter wrote:
>>>> I was wondering if anyone had experience with
>>> upgrading F8 to F9 of late. I get a strange bunch of
>>> dependencies which indicate that the current rpms (to
>> be
>>> upgraded) have dependencies on the old (F8) ones. For
>>> example, claws-mail in F8 needs libssl.so.6, etc.
>>>> But why should yum care? Claws-mail itself will
>> be
>>> updated to the new.
>>>> I was following instructions from 
>>>>
>>>>
>> http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/138/upgrading-from-fedora-8-to-fedora-9-with-yum/
>>> Difficult to say what is going on, without the exact
>> yum
>>> output. Yum 
>>> will care about older packages if the older packages
>> have
>>> others 
>>> depending on them.
>>>
>>> Rahul
> 
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