Up2date errors

[Jim Martin]

M A Young wrote:

>>>I don't understand, how can some of us being having this problem, and
>>>not all? I did 3 installs, all with everything. but yet, none of my
>>>machines can get these updates with out erroring out.
>>>I don't think upgrading gcc is going to fix the problem ( as shown
>>>below) can anyone tell me why we are having this problem? and if
>>>possible, a way to solve it?
>>>      
>>>
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>Not everyone installs every package, in fact it is sensible only to
>install the packages or groups of packages you actually need. And unless
>you are keen to test the latest development compilers you don't need gcc4.
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>>>>That doesn't solve the dependency problem:
>>>>[root at gstpc gerry]# up2date gcc4 gcc4-c++
>>>>http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide
>>>>using mirror:
>>>>http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/
>>>>
>>>>Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-rawhide...
>>>>
>>>>Fetching rpm headers...
>>>>########################################
>>>>
>>>>Name                                    Version        Rel
>>>>----------------------------------------------------------
>>>>gcc4                                    4.0.0
>>>>0.2               i386
>>>>gcc4-c++                                4.0.0
>>>>0.2               i386
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
>>>>There was a package dependency problem. The message was:
>>>>
>>>>Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
>>>>gcc35-gfortran-3.5.0-0.9                 requires gcc35 = 3.5.0-0.9
>>>>java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-1jpp       requires libgcj = 3.4.1
>>>>
>>>>Any other suggestions?  There are a lot of packages caught in
>>>>dependency issues in rawhide.
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>>>>
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>I was expecting you to add other packages to the line to solve
>dependencies as you needed them, eg.
>up2date gcc4 gcc4-c++ gcc4-gfortran
>but you are probably stuck until a rebuilt version of
>java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-1jpp linked against gcc 3.4.2 comes out.
>
>	Michael Young
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This is true not everyone does install everything, but seeing how I am 
running a test version, I assumed it would be benifical to test 
everything. granted, i can get by without most of the packages that I am 
having trouble with, but why should I have to?

BaVinic