problem with yum + suggestion

[Neal Becker]

I'm trying to update from FC4T2 to current rawhide, x86_64:
yum update:
[...]
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: struts11 = 1.1-1jpp_2fc for package:
struts11-webapps-tomcat5
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: struts11 = 1.1-1jpp_2fc is needed by package
struts11-webapps-tomcat5

OK, what about:
sudo yum --exclude=struts11-webapps-tomcat5  update

Same result!

Now, a suggestion:

Why can't yum have a switch to tell it to go ahead and update whatever it
can, instead of refusing to proceed to update 1000 packages just because of
1 dep problem?

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:31 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> I'm trying to update from FC4T2 to current rawhide, x86_64:
> yum update:
> [...]
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: struts11 = 1.1-1jpp_2fc for package:
> struts11-webapps-tomcat5
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: struts11 = 1.1-1jpp_2fc is needed by package
> struts11-webapps-tomcat5
>
> OK, what about:
> sudo yum --exclude=struts11-webapps-tomcat5  update
>
> Same result!

You need to exclude struts11
The problem is that struts11-webapps-tomcat5 needs the old version of
struts11 (I'm guessing here) and yum is trying to update that old
struts11 - so until the tomcat is rebuilt, you will get that error.
> Now, a suggestion:
>
> Why can't yum have a switch to tell it to go ahead and update whatever it
> can, instead of refusing to proceed to update 1000 packages just because of
> 1 dep problem?

That would be nice - but I suspect it would require a lot of additional
code for something that shouldn't happen once core is stable (it has
ONLY happened to me in core3 when I use repositories other than
core/extras/livna)

[William J Dearborn]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:31 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > I'm trying to update from FC4T2 to current rawhide, x86_64:
> > yum update:
> > [...]
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: struts11 = 1.1-1jpp_2fc for package:
> > struts11-webapps-tomcat5
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: struts11 = 1.1-1jpp_2fc is needed by package
> > struts11-webapps-tomcat5
> >
> > OK, what about:
> > sudo yum --exclude=struts11-webapps-tomcat5  update
> >
> > Same result!
>
> You need to exclude struts11
> The problem is that struts11-webapps-tomcat5 needs the old version of
> struts11 (I'm guessing here) and yum is trying to update that old
> struts11 - so until the tomcat is rebuilt, you will get that error.
> > Now, a suggestion:
> >
> > Why can't yum have a switch to tell it to go ahead and update whatever it
> > can, instead of refusing to proceed to update 1000 packages just because of
> > 1 dep problem?
>
> That would be nice - but I suspect it would require a lot of additional
> code for something that shouldn't happen once core is stable (it has
> ONLY happened to me in core3 when I use repositories other than
> core/extras/livna)

Ran into this as well... as per a previous message on this list

yum erase struts11*
yum install struts11
yum update struts11

was the solution that worked for me.

Bill