Evolution Update Fails

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:25:00 +0200, Frank wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:26:57 +0100 Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> > On 06/27/2010 02:30 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > The system has informed me via the Update Applet that evolution needs to
> > > be upgraded to 2.30.2-1, but the upgrade fails with these messages:
> > >          could not do simulate: empathy-2.30.1.1-1.fc13.x86_64 requires libedataserver-1.2.so.11()(64bit)
> > >          gnome-panel-2.30.0-1.fc13.x86_64 requires libedataserver-1.2.so.11()(64bit)
> > >          nautilus-sendto-2.28.4-1.fc13.x86_64 requires libedataserver-1.2.so.11()(64bit) : Success - empty transaction
> > > The system is x86_64 running Fedora-13 with all upgrades (except this one)
> > >
> > > Is this problem just for me, or are others seeing it?
> > >
> > > Thanks -  jon
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > I have the same problem on F13 i686, i think that updates dependencies 
> > are not yet pushed.
> > 
> > Tip:
> > yum update --skip-broken
> 
> I did it and broke at least clock-applet.

Explain how! [See my older reply in your "clock-applet broken" thread.]
Yum's --skip-broken only _excludes_ packages. It does not ignore dependencies.
It would exclude the new evolution packages, since installed packages still
depend on the older installed evolution libraries/packages.