Re: F8 dependency hell with avahi

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 14:32 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>  	I'm running F8 on a T30 thinkpad. Whenever I try to do yum 
>  update, I get :
>  
>  =====		=====		=====		=====
>  Is this ok [y/N]: y
>  Downloading Packages:
>  Running rpm_check_debug
>  Running Transaction Test
>  Finished Transaction Test
>  
>  
>  Transaction Check Error:
>    file /etc/avahi/avahi-autoipd.action from install of avahi-
>  autoipd-0.6.21-8.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from package 
>  avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386
>    file /usr/sbin/avahi-autoipd from install of avahi-
>  autoipd-0.6.21-8.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from package 
>  avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386
>  
>  Error Summary
>  -------------
>  	=====		=====		=====		=====
>  
>  	I've tried everything I can think of to update or get rid of that 
>  avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386 with the "fc7" in it, and nothing I know works. 
>  Pirut did claim to have removed it; but yum update still failed the same.
>  
>  	What do I do, while I still can? Yum wants to change 124 
>  packages, including replacing a kernel. 
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#Fedora_7_-.3E_Fedora_8

Craig