today's yum dependency issues for rawhide

[Sandro Mani]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> 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.
> --
Why not just rebuild them in the meantime? I usually simply bump the
version by one additional "sub-version" (i.e.
vlc-core-2.0.1-1.fc18.x86_64 -> vlc-core-2.0.1-1.1.fc18.x86_64),
rebuild with mock, and that's it.