libssh2 F11 update breaks Fedora 12 DVD update

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Mar 17 19:15:36 UTC 2010


Harald Hoyer wrote:
> On the F12 install DVD we have libssh2-1.2-2.fc12.
> 
> A fully updated F11 will have libssh2 with a higher version. Apparently
> anaconda force updates some packages, if you update with the F12 DVD, but
> not the libssh2 package, which will lead to a broken yum, because
> python-curl needs libcurl, which needs libssh2.
> 
> But the libssh2 from F11 needs libssl.so.8 which is not available anymore
> on the system (anaconda force update of openssl??). So yum does not run
> anymore. The non-technical user ends up with a broken system.
> 
> Solution?

DVD upgrades are just broken by design and will stay broken until they start 
pulling in the updates repository. Right now, they don't even offer the 
option.

        Kevin Kofler



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