Mozilla Firefox

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 01 May 2014 23:23:16 +0200, poma wrote:

> # yum update --skip-broken

> ---> Package mozldap.i686 0:6.0.5-11.fc20 will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: svrcore >= 4.0.3 for package: mozldap-6.0.5-11.fc20.i686

---> Package svrcore.i686 0:4.0.4-10.fc20 will be installed

> Packages skipped because of dependency problems:
>     firefox-29.0-5.fc21.i686 from rawhide
>     mozldap-6.0.5-11.fc20.i686 from rawhide
>     svrcore-4.0.4-10.fc20.i686 from rawhide
>     thunderbird-24.5.0-1.fc21.i686 from rawhide
>     xulrunner-29.0-1.fc21.i686 from rawhide

> Whether this sheds new light on the matter, maestro?

Well, two of the packages (mozldap and svrcore) are not updates, but new
in the dependency-chain. It sounds plausible that Yum skips them, if a problem
with the updates is found. No need to add new packages for updates that
cannot be installed. And xulrunner is another provider of libxul.so*, but not
the one the thunderbird update wants. And there is some dependency between the
two packages, too:

  # repoquery --enablerepo=rawhide --whatrequires xulrunner|grep ^th
  thunderbird-0:24.5.0-1.fc21.x86_64

  # repoquery --exactdeps --enablerepo=rawhide --whatrequires xulrunner|grep ^th
  #
 
It could get more difficult for Yum --skip-broken to decide how independent
individual packages in the update transactions really are inspite of providing
the same things, such as various libxul.so*.