--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: dependencies/conflicts on regular Fedora 10 > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 9:07 AM > On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:55:54 -0700, Phil wrote: > > > This is supposed to happen. yum is doing its job > > protecting you from making mistakes. Furthermore, > this OFTEN happens > > when mirrors are not in sync, which cannot be > controlled. > > That theory is broken. First of all, look at this: > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-11798 > > What is it? A pkg group update from _last year_ for: > > digikam, kipi-plugins, kphotoalbum, kdegraphics > > It's the one that changed from libkipi.so.5 to 6 in > kdegraphics > while providing the corresponding rebuilds of > digikam'n'others. > > Now, Antonio's msg mentions a kernel from Nov 2008 and > digikam from stock > F10 (Oct 2008), so perhaps no updates have been applied at > all due to > unknown problems or misconfiguration. His truncated Yum > output contains > > Missing Dependency: libkipi.so.5()(64bit) is needed by > ... > > What does that mean? Earlier in the Yum output one could > have > seen that Yum mentioned availability of some updates (!), > including one > for kdegraphics, the package that bumps libkipi to > libkipi.so.6. > > Back to your theory. A mirror would either have metadata > about > a package offering libkipi.so.6 or old/out-of-date > metadata. If it > knows about libkipi.so.6, however, it knows also about the > related > rebuilds, such as digikam and kipi-plugins. Why would it > keep the > old digikam* from F10 if the repo contains the > FEDORA-2008-11798 > update? > > > For this very reason, the yum plugin: skip-broken was > written. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Doubtful. > > > But as you yourself admitted, trying again later, when > either the mirror > > finished syncing, or you used a different mirror, all > worked as you > > expected. > > You might want to think about other scenarios where mirrors > or multiple > repos can get out-of-sync. > > > If, after several days of broken dependencies, you > should have done as > > the previous poster suggested and provided help to the > maintainers, who > > may have actually messed up a package. Hey, it does > happen. > > Well, it's not in the Fedora 10 broken deps report. > > > So how do you tell whether it really is broken? Wait > and retry for a > > day or two. > > No, examine the problem with a few repo queries to find out > what > exactly is wrong. > > -- Actually, I had just gotten a home made machine for my classroom, installed Fedora 10 and ran yum update -y, and I encountered the error. Sorry for then noise. Thank you Michael for your post, I let the machine update all the other packages. Then came back and applied the updates again and did not encounter the problem again :) Regards, Antonio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
