dependency problems: samba4-client-4.0.0-45alpha18.fc17.i686 from updates-testing

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 2 May 2012 18:38:21 -0700 (PDT), AO (Antonio) wrote:

> Dear folks,
> 
> for a good while now, I have kept getting the following every time I yum update :
> 

If you run updates-testing, you may need to run "yum distro-sync" from
time to time.

The reason for that is simple. Test Updates are withdrawn because they are
broken. They are not available in the repos anymore, but it could be that
you've installed them or updated to them already.  Often, broken test
updates are replaced with a newer release, which would replace your
installed packages. However, some test updates are not replaced, at least
not too soon. And even if a newer test update replaces an earlier broken
one, it could be that it doesn't even try to fix temporary packaging
issues.

> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package samba4-client.i686 1:4.0.0-41alpha18.fc17 will be updated
> ---> Package samba4-client.i686 1:4.0.0-45alpha18.fc17 will be an update
> ---> Package samba4-common.i686 1:4.0.0-41alpha18.fc17 will be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: samba4-common = 1:4.0.0-41alpha18.fc17 for package: 1:libsmbclient-4.0.0-41alpha18.fc17.i686
>

The -41alpha18.fc17 release has been trouble-some. It could not be
installed here with an ordinary F-17 Beta installation "yum update".

> I don't see in the reports that the package(s) are broken, is the updates-testing repo here conflicting with official pre 17 release repo?
> 

The existing broken deps reports only search for dependency problems in
the current repository contents. Typically, that is unable to catch all
kinds of upgrade issues as older package releases are not in the repos
anymore.

> Any thoughts of what I should do to resolve this?

Try "yum distro-sync".

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