morning "yum update" complains about libtool needing gcc-4.0.1

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:53:01AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   over a week since my last FC4 "yum update", and this morning's
> > attempt generates:
> >
> > ...
> > ---> Package gcc-c++.i386 0:4.0.2-8.fc4 set to be updated
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.1 for package: libtool
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 4.0.1 is needed by package libtool
> >
> >
> > so the update would obviously update gcc from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2, but this
> > wouldn't go down well with libtool.  i could just update and exclude
> > libtool, unless someone knows if this would cause any breakage.
>
> Do you have libtool excluded in yum config or something similar?
> There is libtool-1.5.16.multilib2-3 in the FC4 updates repository
> which depends on 4.0.2, so when you update both gcc and libtool all
> dependencies are satisfied.

ok, figured it out.  the libtool on my FC4 system was not the standard
one, but one from axel thimm's AT repo which had a slightly higher
version number and therefore took precedence over the FC updates one.
argh.

is there some kind of protocol that dictates when third-party repoes
should and shouldn't override packages that should be found in the
standard FC repoes?

rday