problem with yum + suggestion

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:31 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> I'm trying to update from FC4T2 to current rawhide, x86_64:
> yum update:
> [...]
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: struts11 = 1.1-1jpp_2fc for package:
> struts11-webapps-tomcat5
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: struts11 = 1.1-1jpp_2fc is needed by package
> struts11-webapps-tomcat5
> 
> OK, what about:
> sudo yum --exclude=struts11-webapps-tomcat5  update  
> 
> Same result!

You need to exclude struts11
The problem is that struts11-webapps-tomcat5 needs the old version of
struts11 (I'm guessing here) and yum is trying to update that old
struts11 - so until the tomcat is rebuilt, you will get that error.

> 
> Now, a suggestion:
> 
> Why can't yum have a switch to tell it to go ahead and update whatever it
> can, instead of refusing to proceed to update 1000 packages just because of
> 1 dep problem?
> 

That would be nice - but I suspect it would require a lot of additional
code for something that shouldn't happen once core is stable (it has
ONLY happened to me in core3 when I use repositories other than
core/extras/livna)