Re: yum dependencies problem

[Timothy Sandel <timothy jupiter stcl edu>]

I just erased (rpm -e) on the linc-devel and one other devel pkg that
depends on it to get by the error.  Not the fix, but at least you can
get the other updates.

Timothy
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 17:41, dustin wrote:
> Greetings,
> 	I've been using Fedora Core 2 for a while and decided to try out FC3-
> test2. I got it installed with no problems and I'm writing this from it.
> The problem is that I am trying to use up2date to update my system, and
> I keep getting a dependency error. It is saying that linc is required to
> install linc-devel. Here is the output from yum:
> 
> Requiring package is installed: linc-devel - 1.0.3-6.i386
> Resolving for installed requiring package: linc-devel - 1.0.3-6.i386
> Resolving for requirement: linc= 1.0.3
> Mode for pkg providing linc= 1.0.3: None
> Searching pkgSack for dep: linc
> Potential match for linc from linc - 1.0.3-6.i386
> Matched linc - 1.0.3-6.i386 to require for linc
> miss = 2
> conf = 0
> CheckDeps = 0
> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Dependency Process ending
> Error: missing dep: linc for pkg linc-devel
> 
> 
> I look at that and notice that linc nor linc-devel are in the repository
> from the mirror im using. I figure it's no big deal and I just download
> the linc version it wants and go to install it, only to get a message
> saying that it is already installed.
> 
> [root median ~]# rpm -qa | grep linc
> linc-devel-1.0.3-6
> linc-1.0.3-6
> [root median ~]#
> 
> yum wants 1.0.3, but I have 1.0.3-6. This normally shouldn't matter, but
> for some reason yum doesn't like this. Is anyone else experiencing this?
> Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> dustin
>