problem with yum + suggestion
Bill Dearborn
wjdearborn at narthexservices.com
Sat May 7 21:40:58 UTC 2005
Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 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)
>
Ran into this as well... as per a previous message on this list
yum erase struts11*
yum install struts11
yum update struts11
was the solution that worked for me.
Bill
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