Eclipse - failed dependencies - after 10 Feb Update

[Don Springall]

>From: Doug Fordham <dfordham at gmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: Eclipse - failed dependencies - after 10 Feb Update
>Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:20:44 -0500
>
>No solutions at the moment...ran a minor update this morning:
>Updated: gnupg2.i386 0:1.9.20-1.fc5.1 gpgme.i386 0:1.1.0-3.fc5.1 
>libksba.i386 0:0.9.13-2.fc5.1 pinentry.i386 0:0.7.2-1.fc5.1 yumex.noarch 
>0:0.99.5-1.0.fc5
>Complete!
>
>....but still needed to exclude the Eclipse entries:
>yum --exclude=eclipse-platform --exclude=eclipse-platform-devel.i386  
>--exclude=eclipse-rcp --exclude=eclipse-jdt --exclude=eclipse-ecj 
>--exclude=eclipse-bugzilla --exclude=1:3.1.2-1jpp_5fc 
>--exclude=libswt3-gtk2 update
>
>
>MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:
>>From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Doug Fordham
>>...running a "yum update" produces the following:
>>Resolving Dependencies
>>--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>>---> Package eclipse-bugzilla.i386 1:0.1.1_fc-6.2 set to be updated ---> 
>>Package eclipse-jdt.i386 1:3.1.2-1jpp_5fc set to be updated Package
>>
>>---> eclipse-rcp.i386 1:3.1.2-1jpp_5fc set to be updated Package ---> 
>>eclipse-ecj.i386 1:3.1.2-1jpp_5fc set to be updated Package ---> 
>>eclipse-platform.i386 1:3.1.2-1jpp_5fc set to be updated
>>--> Running transaction check
>>--> Processing Dependency: eclipse-platform = 3.1.2 for package: 
>>eclipse-bugzilla
>>--> Processing Dependency: java-javadoc for package: eclipse-platform --> 
>>Processing Dependency: libswt3-gtk2 = 1:3.1.2-1jpp_5fc for package:
>>eclipse-platform
>>--> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>Error: Missing Dependency: eclipse-platform = 3.1.2 is needed by package
>>eclipse-bugzilla
>>Error: Missing Dependency: java-javadoc is needed by package
>>eclipse-platform
>>Error: Missing Dependency: libswt3-gtk2 = 1:3.1.2-1jpp_5fc is needed by
>>package eclipse-platform
>>
>>...no amount of fiddling with exclude statements in yum yields result. 
>>Anyone else seeing this behavior?
>>--
>>Yes I was seeing this myself yesterday actually and you're right, I
>>couldn't figure out a proper exclude that would allow the yum update to
>>occur and not break everything. Any solutions?
>>
>>Michael Weiner

I  ended up using the following yesterday to get things to go:
yum update 
--exclude={tix,tkinter,eclipse-*,libswt3-gtk2,python,python-devel}

I probally excluded too much of the eclipse stuff but at least it ran okay.