On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:35:17AM -0500, seth vidal told me: > Here is how yum does depsolving. It goes through and tries to satisfy > the requests of ts.check() if it goes through more than 5 dependency > loops with no change in the output of ts.check() then it means that > nothing new is happening on the resolution front and we should just give > up. > > The reason is stated above, you were trying to update mozilla but it > would leave you with a broken epiphany, so it can't update. This may have been asked before, but why have yum exit rather then offer to fix (ie. removing epiphany)? I see how this can be dangerous for 'update' but why not 'upgrade'? -- Greg M. Kurtzer, CSE: Linux cluster specialist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Contact: O=510.495.2307, P=510.448.4540, M=510.928.9953 1 Cyclotron Road MS:50C-3396, Berkeley, CA 94720 http://www.lbl.gov, http://scs.lbl.gov/, http://lug.lbl.gov/ Email: GMKurtzer_at_lbl.gov, Text: 5109289953_at_mobileatt.net
