Unresolvable dependency

[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
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