[FC3] YUM not resolving dependencies?

[Tony Nelson]

At 1:59 PM +0200 6/25/05, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:34:09 -0500, M.Lewis wrote:
 ...
>> Thanks Alexander. I have no doubt the packages are there. I can see
>> them. The question is if their are dependencies, then why didn't yum
>> resolve them and download the required files.
>
>Most likely because you have Fedora Extras enabled, which contains the
>newer perl-Razor-Agent-2.71-1.fc3, which fixes a vulnerability, whereas
>the version one of your dependencies need is an old one. When solving
>dependencies automatically, Yum only sees the most recent version of a
>package and hence doesn't see perl-Razor-Agent = 2.40-1.1.fc3.rf

So he can work around the problem by doing this?

# yum --disablerepo=fedora-extras install razor-agents
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