On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 12:55 -0400, David Potter wrote: > 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 > > Actually until I experimented with the options below all yum told me was > the file name... nothing about what package it was in....? > > Here's some output using -C -d 3 -e 3 > [SNIP] Mr. Potter, There's no error message in the parts you've shown so far. It's just the normal dependency resolution output. -sv
