Up2date fails to update pppd

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 11:25, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> > For the last couple of days, I have been trying to apply an update 
> > flagged by the RHN Up2date icon for pppd-2.4.2-3-FC2.1. However, when I 
> > go through the up2date process, it stops with a warning saying:
> > There was a package dependency problem. The message was:
> > Unresolvable chain of dependancies:
> > initscripts-7.53-1      requires pppd < 2.3.9
> > 
> > Is this a "bug" with up2date? If not, how do I overcome this error?
> > 
> 
> initscripts-7.53-1 actually *conflicts* with pppd < 2.3.9, rather than
> requiring it.  There's a problem with the new ppp package that's
> triggering the conflict, but there's also a bug in up2date that's
> reporting it as a requirement rather than a conflict.

yep,  yum shows it as a conflict.