fail to install gcc on fresh rawhide-from-F15

[James Antill]

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 22:38 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With some effort, and help from the guys on #anaconda at freenode (thanks!),
> today I finally installed a bare-metal F15 system (part of the complication
> was my existing partitions).
> 
> Then I updated it to rawhide.  However, the whole point of this was to
> be able to compile and test some things, yet I cannot install gcc:
> 
> # yum install gcc
[...]
> Error: Package: glibc-2.8.90-11.i686 (rawhide)
>            Requires: glibc-common = 2.8.90-11
>            Installed: glibc-common-2.13.90-4.x86_64 (@updates-testing/15)
>                glibc-common = 2.13.90-4
>            Available: glibc-common-2.8.90-11.x86_64 (rawhide)
>                glibc-common = 2.8.90-11

 Newer glibc in F15 than in rawhide, so yum won't "go backwards" for
glibc-devel ... it tries to go with the .i686 instead (do you not have
protected_multilib set?), but that doesn't work out either.

 distro-sync glibc* on rawhide ... or get glibc-devel from F-15.

> Error: Package: gcc-4.3.1-6.x86_64 (rawhide)
>            Requires: cpp = 4.3.1-6
>            Installed: cpp-4.6.0-0.7.fc15.x86_64 (@rawhide)
>                cpp = 4.6.0-0.7.fc15
>            Available: cpp-4.3.1-6.x86_64 (rawhide)
>                cpp = 4.3.1-6

 Dito. cpp.