Package kdebase needs samba-common = 3.0.11 (Revised)

[Steven J. Brown]

Steve Brown wrote:

> This is my second attempt (with revisions) at getting help with this 
> problem.
>
> When I run 'yum update', after several minutes of attempting to resolve
> dependencies, yum gives me the following error message:
>
>    Package kdebase needs samba-common = 3.0.11, this is not available.
>
> No updates take place.  'rpm -qi samba-common' reported that I have
> version 3.0.11.  I then ran 'yum update samba-common' and now I have
> version 3.0.14 and I still get the error message.  Reverting to 
> version 3.0.11 does not seem to be an option because of the 
> unavailability of the old package, dependencies and so on.
>
> I commented out the kde-redhat.org repository and re-ran 'yum update'
> and it ran fine, updating a handful of programs.  Then I uncommented the
> kde-redhat.org repository lines and ran yum again and got the same
> message.  Searching list archives and google turned up nothing.  I had
> the same problem on my notebook.
>
> Other information:
>
> kernel: 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 (yes, FC2)
> KDE: 3.4.0
>
> It seems to me that this might be something that the packager of the 
> KDE RPMs should address -- maybe "equals 3.0.11" should be "greater 
> than or equals 3.0.11".  I could find no way to contact anyone at 
> kde-redhat.org, however.  Maybe if I wait until the next KDE package, 
> this will go away.  For now, I changed yum.conf to ignore kde* packages.
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.


Apparently this problem has fixed itself.  Thanks for all the help.