Yum Dependency problem [Solved]

[Michael Schwendt]

On 03/11/2007, david walcroft <d_j_w46 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> >> I have just done another  'yum update' for the third time today and yum
> >> download 87 updates and cleaned up my dependency problem.
> >> I notice that If I wait a couple of days dependency problems tend to
> >> resolve them selves.
> >>
> >
> > You are confused. There have not been any huge updates for this. For
> > example, "metakit" (see above quote) for stock Fedora 7 is unchanged
> > since May 23rd and does NOT require python(abi) = 2.4 (which is Fedora
> > Core 6 and older), but python(abi) = 2.5. A simple upgrade to Fedora 7
> > would have replaced it with the f7 package already. Same applies to
> > python-imaging-tk (... and I haven't checked the others).
> >
> > $ rpm -qpR metakit-2.4.9.6-1.fc7.i386.rpm |grep py
> > python(abi) = 2.5
> >
> >
> I had not been able to download for a week hence the 87 rpm's .
> I did an upgrade install from FC6 > FC7 at the release of FC7.

Have you read the paragraph above? After an "upgrade install from FC6
> FC7 at the release of FC7" you would not have a metakit package
which requires python(abi) = 2.4, ... which is one of the problems
quoted in your original mail. It is explained above. Perhaps your
upgrade was incomplete/interrupted/whatever. But that still doesn't
explain why your "yum update" attempt failed and got access to 87
additional packages a few days later. Hence your conclusions wrt
updates are wrong.