On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 12:34 -0400, David Potter wrote: > Are there any clues in the yum error output to help me resolve > dependency errors... is the list sorted - or random. > > With rpm, when it failed on a dependency problem it offered one or more > package 'deficiencies'. When you tried to resolve one of the > deficiencies, you would often encounter a couple more... and so on, > perhaps a couple more levels. The good part was that if you had the > patience and kept some notes you could actually work your way through > the deficiency tree and resolve all the issues. > > If , for instance I wanted to know what package contains a missing file > can I use a specific -d/-e level to obtain that output. > can you give us an example of a problem you're seeing. Typically yum tells you what package is causing the problem. -sv
