today's yum dependency issues for rawhide

Kevin Martin ktmdms at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 11:33:47 UTC 2012


On 07/11/2012 08:30 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> On 07/11/2012 04:49 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 16:39:28 -0500,
>>   Kevin Martin <ktmdms at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>> Please explain why that makes any difference in this discussion.  I'm not sure I see the relevance; vlc want's the 0 version, the
>>> others want the 1 version, so what?
>>
>> To get the .1 version the library needs to be updated, but that would remove the .0 version which is required by vlc. Rather than
>> remove vlc, the update is blocked. This also blocks the update of packages to versions that require the .1 version.
>>
>> Some libraries to provide compatibility versions, but those are special circumstances.
> Ah, I see now.  I assumed that what I was reading was that systemd-libs was obsoleting *all* of the libudev libraries so I didn't
> see what it mattered that both the .0 and .1 versions were being obsoleted.  I'll try removing vlc and let you know.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kevin
> 
Aaaaannndddddd, you're correct.  Removed vlc and vlc-core and reran the update and the only dependency issues were for kernel
related debuginfo packages.  Thanks all.

Kevin



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