dependancies

[Phil Schaffner]

Ah - yes.  Dancing the dependency dancies.  :-)
[Sorry - couldn't resist.]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:10 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Ted Gervais kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 27. 
> heinäkuuta 2005 16:03):
> > Does this mean I have to go now and download everyone of those
> > files to bring this darn thing up to date?

Apparently, if you only grabbed the mozilla RPM and want
mozilla-1.7.8-1.3.1 instead of the mozilla-1.7.10-1.3.1 that's the
latest in updates.

> 
> Yes. Yum does that automatically for you.

But, reading between the lines from the earlier thread of the same
topic, I deduce he grabbed an older mozilla rpm in order to try to get
around a galeon dependency issue with the most current update.  Not
totally clear - insufficient information for me to be sure of the true
question.

> 
> > Redhat (core) 
> > used to be a little more friendly than this?
> 
> No, it worked exactly the same way.

Yup - don't see the difference.  A broken dependency is a broken
dependency.

> 
> > What gives?  
> 
> Nothing.
> 
> > And how to I get back on the smooth track or easier track now?
> 
> Use yum or up2date to update your system.

Good advice when it works.  If you really want the older-than-current
mozilla version, get all the same-version RPMS and update with "rpm -Uvh
mozilla*" - all at once.  Does not guarantee that there will not be
other dep problems.  Updating with yum will still be broken if the later
versions in updates have dependency problems with galeon or other
installed packages.

Phil