Strange package dependency problem

[Andrew Farris]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 07:12 -0500, Neal D. Becker wrote:

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> Andrew Farris wrote:
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> > On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 12:19 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote:
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> >> While trying to upgrade to the latest rawhide packages with up2date
> >> today I encountered the following:
> >> 
> >> There was a package dependency problem.  The message was:
> >> 
> >> Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
> >> XFree86-4.3.0-64                         requires XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-64
> >> XFree86-devel-4.3.0-64                   requires XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-64
> >> XFree86-twm-4.3.0-64                     requires XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-64
> >> XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-64                     requires XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-64
> >> 
> >> Please modify your package selections and try again.
> >> 
> >> I had upgraded to the complete set of XFree86-4.3.0-64 packages I use
> >> (including all the above mentioned) without problems yesterday.
> >> 
> >> Anybody else seen this?
> >> 
> >> Alexander
> > 
> > XFree86-libs is probably being removed in favor of xorg packages.  Try
> > updating with ignoring all the xorg packages and see if the dependencies
> > still arise.  Otherwise update directly to all the xorg package set
> > (either download locally and use rpm -Uvh xorg*.rpm or yum install
> > xorg*).
> > 
> > Verify you are connected to a mirror that is in sync and has all the
> > xorg packages available.  I updated tonight from the USC mirror (the
> > up2date sources entry for this mirror is below).
> > yum fedora-development
> >
> http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1.90/i386/yum/updates
> 
> I modified my yum update entry as above, and I still see the same result
> (above) reported by others.
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Are you updating with an explicit exclusion of the xorg packages?  They
Obselete all of XFree86 (which is no longer on the mirror at all), so
will cause major dependency problems if you don't exclude it completely;
it still might when you do.  I did see these same dependencies prior to
the xorg update.. but I excluded xorg (also kdebase, chkfontpath,
anaconda, gdm), updated, then installed xorg*.  The choice is either
update to xorg-x11 or work around these weird dependency issues for the
rest of the testing cycle.
yum --exclude=xorg*
(or) yum install xorg*

(I suppose you could install the offered 4.4 packages that have been
posted to the list)
-- 
"The only thing neccessary for the triumph of evil is for good men
to do nothing." (Edmond Burke)

Andrew Farris, CPE major
California Polytechnic University, SLO
fedora at andrewfarris.com