today's yum dependency issues for rawhide

Kevin Martin ktmdms at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 16:39:41 UTC 2012


On 07/11/2012 11:36 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:12:31 -0500,
>   Kevin Martin <ktmdms at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Two questions:
>>
>> 1). How do I get rid of the dependency issues shown below?  Do I force the update of systemd-libs or do the packages that are
>> dependent on libudev need to be updated?
> 
> I like to keep the latest versions of rawhide packages installed unless it would require removing something really critical. The way
> I do a quick check for what is blocking updates is to run:
> yum update -y -v | grep -i fail
> Note that sometimes early failures cause later failures so that you really don't need to remove every package listed. There can also
> be failures that don't show up when doing the above.
> 
> My fallback plan is to remove the packages that won't update.
> 
> I track all of the packages I remove and regularly try reinstalling them.

Bruno,

 Thanks for that information/suggestion.  I'll give that a try and see where I get.

Kevin



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