"yum update" dependency error

[Tom Brinkman]

On Thursday 11 October 2007 09:12:34 am Caerie Houchins wrote:
> On 10/11/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >   the very latest "yum update" attempt:
> >
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Unresolvable requirement redhat-artwork = 7.0.0-14.fc8
> > for redhat-artwork-kde
> > Error: Unresolvable requirement fedorainfinity-gdm-theme for
> > gdm
> >
> > rday
> >
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> This is what you can exclude to fix the gdm-theme requirement.
>
> yum update --exclude=fedora-gnome-theme
>
> I don't use kde and am not seeing the other error.

   Could be the OP jus wanted to alert the problem  (?)  That is my 
purpose too, an what work around works.

   When I run across deps that --skip-broken fails on, I use this 
script.  It use to be on some yum page (tips'n tricks ?) but 
disappeared when the skip-broken (which often doesn't) plugin came 
out.

#!/bin/sh

 for i in `yum list updates |cut -f 1 -d " " |grep -A 500 -e 
Updated |\
   (the above line should all be on one line)

 grep -v -e Updated` ; do
       echo "Updating $i"
       yum -y update $i

   After savin it as 'yumnd' in my ~/bin dir, I made it executable. 
Runnin 'yumnd' (as root) got all the updates. I use it 
after  'yum --skip-broken upgrade' fails, specially since all the 
d/l'g is already done.

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    Tom Brinkman                       Corpus Christi, Texas