Yum update...only one at a time?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 00:19 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:45:43AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 23:45 -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> > > I'm doing yum update, but its only doing one package at a time...any idea
> > > why?
> > > 
> > > I've done a yum clean all and I'm using version 2.1.4
> > 
> > What do you mean one package at a time?
> 
> It seems to me that something went haywire with a dependency
> resolution and not really in yum but somewhere in rpm libraries.
> An attempt to use directly 'rpm -Fvh ...' with a bunch of packages
> from the current updates ends up with:
> 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         linc >= 0.1.6 is needed by (installed) pyorbit-2.0.0-3.1
>         linc = 1.0.3 is needed by (installed) linc-devel-1.0.3-6
> 
> while 'rpm -q linc' responds with 'linc-1.0.3-6' and
> 'rpm -q linc-devel' with 'linc-devel-1.0.3-6'.  This appears to
> trip yum.
> 
> It seems that the real culprit is ORBit2, though, but why it
> triggers this problem is far from clear to me.  Still, when other
> packages are updated then ORBit2, and ORBit2-devel, can be updated
> as well but only then.
> 
> This is probably a bugzilla material but against what?

'distribution' is the component to file against - and I think this is an
obsolete tag.

-sv