Yum update problems: fixed Livna, now what?

[Robin Laing]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
>> On 11/7/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/11/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> After several days of yum problems (no livna), I switched to the
>>>> failovermethod=priority mirror method, and yum starts normally.
>>>> However, it bombs out with:
>>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>> Error: Missing Dependency: dbus-qt = 0.33-3.1.fc4.kde is needed by
>>>> package dbus-devel
>>>>
>>>> When can I get that? If I just download it as an rpm (I haven't
>>>> checked from where yet), will that screw anything up?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Dotan Cohen
>>>>
>>>
>>> http://technology-sleuth.com/question/how_much_memory_will_i_need_for_my_digital_camera.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> What I did was to rpm -e dbus-devel and then everything worked just 
>>> fine.
>>> Apparently, dbus-devel was not needed by anythng on my system, 
>>> although it
>>> must have been at one time, otherwise I would never have installed it 
>>> in the
>>> first place.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Isn't there a way to see what depends on something before I -e it? I
>> just did a man rpm but didn't see an option for checking. How is that
>> done?
> 
> 
> A simple way of doing this is just to run the "rpm -e" as a non-root 
> user. If there are dependency issues, rpm will tell you. If not, the 
> remove will fail because you're not root.
> 
> Paul.
> 

What about the --test flag?  Wouldn't that work as well?