On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:55:25 -0500, Claude Jones > If I do yum -y update, after some time, it runs a list of packages > to be updated, followed by a series of messages: First of all.. i would strongly encourage you NOT to use -y when updating from the development tree. As a tester, its not necessarily in your best interests to consume all updates without review. You can save yourself a lot of troubleshooting heartache if you take time to at least review updates before they occur, it can really help you narrow down any problems which result from a rawhide update package, especially if you don't have a broad knowledge of the underlying subsystems. Though i would caution you to be even more cautious, and to do targeted updates of specific packages or small groups of packages instead of all development tree updates with one step, regardless of your tool of choice. > ---> Processing Dependency: [name of package] > Followed by: > Error: Missing Dependency: [name of package} > > There are about fifteen of those. Then I just revert to the > prompt. There has been significant discussion of these sorts of problems on this list for over a week now. Please review the recent list archive messages since test1 release. This is not a yum problem.. this is a problem with the development tree. The packages in the development tree are not always self-consistent. Yum attempts to resolve dependancies, but if the development tree is not fully self-consistent, the dependancies are unresolvable and hence the error message. These are packaging errors that the Core package maintainers need to fix by providing associated package updates to make the tree self-consistent. For example libwnck in the development tree no longer provides libwnck-1.so.4 libwnck-2.10.0-1.i386.rpm now provides libwnck-1.so.16 Many packages in the development tree stilll require libwnck-1.so.4, for example gnome-python2-libwnck-2.9.3-1.i386.rpm requires libwnck-1.so.4 Yum has the ability to exclude packages from the update calculation, the specific --exclude options needed from day to day seems to be a popular topic of discussion among some list members. -jef This situation happens frequently with the development tree, another reason why yum -y isn't a particularly great idea to use when using the development tree.