today's yum dependency issues for rawhide

[Sandro Mani]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Kevin Martin <ktmdms at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/11/2012 11:42 AM, Sandro Mani wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> The funny thing is that while vlc is *one* of the packages that has libudev dependencies there are a whole bunch more non-rpmfusion
> packages that have libudev dependencies as well:
>
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Yeah, but vlc wants libudev.so.0()(64bit), the other ones libudev.so.1()(64bit).