TeX update failure with texlive-release.repo

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 12:21 -0400, Timothy Murphy wrote: 
> I'm using the texlive-release repo under Fedora-17
> in order to get a recent version of TeXLive.
> (I want to run luatex, and this seems the easiest way.)
> 
> I've been getting the following dependency error
> for the last few days:
> -----------------------------------
> Error: Package: R-core-2.15.0-1.fc17.i686 (@fedora)
>            Requires: texlive-latex
>            Removing: 1:texlive-latex-svn23639-1.noarch (@texlive)
>                texlive-latex = 1:svn23639-1
>            Obsoleted By: 1:tex-latex-svn23639-1.noarch (texlive)
>                Not found
>            Available: texlive-latex-2007-70.fc17.i686 (fedora)
>                texlive-latex = 2007-70.fc17
> Error: Package: R-core-2.15.0-1.fc17.i686 (@fedora)
>            Requires: texlive-dvips
>            Removing: 1:texlive-dvips-svn26765-1.noarch (@texlive)
>                texlive-dvips = 1:svn26765-1
>            Obsoleted By: 1:tex-dvips-svn26765-1.noarch (texlive)
>                Not found
>            Available: texlive-dvips-2007-70.fc17.i686 (fedora)
>                texlive-dvips = 2007-70.fc17
> Error: Package: 1:texlive-preview-11.86.svn17118-1.noarch (@texlive)
>            Requires: texlive-kpathsea
>            Removing: 1:texlive-kpathsea-svn26691-1.noarch (@texlive)
>                texlive-kpathsea = 1:svn26691-1
>            Obsoleted By: 1:tex-kpathsea-svn26691-1.noarch (texlive)
>                Not found
> -----------------------------------
> 
> I wonder if anyone else has been getting this,
> and if so whether there is any way round?
> 
> I must admit I can't make much sense of this yum error message.

This is a dependency error in the R package.  There's a new R package in
updates-testing that fixes it.

> 

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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