Updating failling with both yum

Wayne Steenburg w.steenburg at myactv.net
Fri Mar 19 23:04:04 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 11:43 -0500, R. Scott Baer wrote:
> I' installed FC2 Test 1, from the ISO's last week.  I have been trying 
> to update to the current devl version via yum
> I have googled, read the archives,  both of which helped me.. but I'm 
> still broken.  I can't update.
> 
> currently it says it has dependencies on XFree86 (see below).
> I am using yum ver:  2.0.5-20040310
> my yum.conf is pointing to:  
> ftp://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora-core/development/$basearch/
> 
> Could someone help me get updated to the current dev version please..
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [root at localhost root]# yum --exclude=XFree86 --exclude=XFree86-twm 
> --exclude=XFree86-devel update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1.90 - Development Tree
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> ..Package XFree86 needs XFree86-xfs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not available.
> Package XFree86 needs XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not available.
> Package XFree86-twm needs XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not 
> available.
> Package XFree86-devel needs XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-45.0.1, this is not 
> available.
> [root at localhost root]#
> 

Try not upgrading any of  the XFree86 and xorg (replacement for XFree86)
packages

yum --exclude=XFree86* --exclude=xorg* update

Wayne





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