up2date choking on Perl:Twig

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 30 20:05:42 UTC 2004


rgleeson said:
> I've been having problems using up2date (and Yum and Apt, for that matter)
> with the latest round of updates on Test 3.
>
> Today I discovered it was was choking on Perl:Twig v.3.13-4.  The error
> message is:
>
> "unresolvable chain of dependencies - requres Perl:XML XPath"
>
> I have a couple of question related to this:
> 1) I have everything installed from the Test 3 CDs.  Why am I running in
> to a
> dependency issue like this on an basic update?  I already have 3.09-3
> installed.  How can I resolve it?

Wait for rawhide to become consistent again.

> More long-term:
> 2) In the case of this conflict, would it not be a good idea to install
> everything possible and then note which packages couldn't be installed at
> the
> end, rather than choking the process at the beginning?

That is a matter of opinion.  I prefer to know that something isn't right
so that I can rectify that.

> 3) I keep getting GP Key (sp?) prompts for each package.  Is there a way
> to
> bypass this?

Have you installed all the GPG keys?

> #2 and #3 speak to the fluidity of an update with up2date, being able to
> leave
> it do its business and not having to babysit it.

#2 Generally doesn't happen once released, because the tree in consistent.
 #3 is solved but installing the correct GPG keys and possibly using a
mirror (but since up2date does that automagically now it is most likely a
GPG issue).
[snip]
-- 
William Hooper





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