Unresolvable dependency

[Gerry Tool]

I just updated today's packages, except the following which is unresolved.

[root@gstpc ~]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
development               100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package pwlib.i386 0:1.8.4-1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1.8.3 for package: 
gnomemeeting
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1.8.3 is needed by 
package gnomemeeting

Gerry

[Roger Grosswiler]

Gerry Tool wrote:
> I just updated today's packages, except the following which is unresolved.
>
> [root@gstpc ~]# yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repos
> development               100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package pwlib.i386 0:1.8.4-1 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1.8.3 for package: 
> gnomemeeting
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1.8.3 is needed by 
> package gnomemeeting
>
> Gerry

dito.

Roger

[John Dennis]

BTW, when I got the same unresolved dependency yesterday I reran
yum like this:

yum --exclude=gnomemeeting upgrade

But it still failed due to gnomemeetings unresolved dependency,
so I thought gee maybe I'm not using --exclude correctly so I tried
the following as well

yum --exclude='gnomemeeting*' upgrade
yum --exclude='*gnomemeeting*' upgrade

each with the same result, am I not using exclude correctly?

--
John Dennis

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 12:12 -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> yum --exclude=gnomemeeting upgrade
> yum --exclude='gnomemeeting*' upgrade
> yum --exclude='*gnomemeeting*' upgrade
>
> each with the same result, am I not using exclude correctly?

No, you're excluding properly, you're just excluding the wrong package.
You should be excluding pwlib instead.

[Markus Håkansson]

lör 2005-03-19 klockan 12:30 -0500 skrev Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams:
> On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 12:12 -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> > yum --exclude=gnomemeeting upgrade
> > yum --exclude='gnomemeeting*' upgrade
> > yum --exclude='*gnomemeeting*' upgrade
> >
> > each with the same result, am I not using exclude correctly?
>
> No, you're excluding properly, you're just excluding the wrong package.
> You should be excluding pwlib instead.

I was having the same problem earlier today, but it worked when yum used
a different mirror. I get this message every now and then when mirrors
aren't fully updated and while using rawhide I expect it.
Usually when it is a bigger problem someone will post a working
exclude-line that makes the update work and everything is okay.

However, everytime I have had this problem I have been unable to figure
out which packages needs to be excluded by myself.

Yum output was something like this (sorry but I haven't got the exact
output)
Failed dependency:
 libXYZ.so.1.2.3 is needed by gnomemeeting

The way I read this is that package containgin libXYZ does not yet exist
on the mirror (or something else is broken with it) and the new version
of gnomemeeting needs it, so the solution is to not update
gnomemeeting. 
Am I reading yum's output the wrong way?
How to I determine which packages that need to be excluded to be able to
update?
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[Marcus Schuetz]

Markus Håkansson released the following into the bitstream on 03/19/05 21:29:
> lör 2005-03-19 klockan 12:30 -0500 skrev Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams:
> > On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 12:12 -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> > > yum --exclude=gnomemeeting upgrade
> > > yum --exclude='gnomemeeting*' upgrade
> > > yum --exclude='*gnomemeeting*' upgrade
> > >
> > > each with the same result, am I not using exclude correctly?
> >
> > No, you're excluding properly, you're just excluding the wrong package.
> > You should be excluding pwlib instead.
>
> I was having the same problem earlier today, but it worked when yum used
> a different mirror. I get this message every now and then when mirrors
> aren't fully updated and while using rawhide I expect it.
> Usually when it is a bigger problem someone will post a working
> exclude-line that makes the update work and everything is okay.
>
> However, everytime I have had this problem I have been unable to figure
> out which packages needs to be excluded by myself.
>
> Yum output was something like this (sorry but I haven't got the exact
> output)
> Failed dependency:
>  libXYZ.so.1.2.3 is needed by gnomemeeting
>
> The way I read this is that package containgin libXYZ does not yet exist
> on the mirror (or something else is broken with it) and the new version
> of gnomemeeting needs it, so the solution is to not update
> gnomemeeting. 
> Am I reading yum's output the wrong way?
> How to I determine which packages that need to be excluded to be able to
> update?
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Or libXYZ.so.1.2.3 would be updated with libXYZ.so.1.2.4 and the current version 
of gnomemeeting requires libXYZ.so.1.2.3. 'Yum provides libXYZ.so.1.2.3' should 
give you the name of the package you have to exclude until gnomemeeting is rebuilt.

HTH