[ATrpms-users] yum dependency issues

[Chris Petersen]

A number of people in #mythtv-users (and a couple on the mythtv mailing 
list) have started asking about this.  One posted a solution of 
removing/reinstalling yum, but that doesn't work for me.

My problem is that I see broken dependencies for the yum package in fc3 
testing.  `apt-cache showpkg yum` displays:

Package: yum
Versions:
2.1.12-45.rhfc3.at(/var/state/apt/lists/apt.atrpms.net_fedora_3_en_i386_base_pkglist.at-testing)
2.1.11-3(/var/state/apt/lists/ayo.freshrpms.net_fedora_linux_3_i386_base_pkglist.core)

Reverse Depends:
Dependencies:
2.1.12-45.rhfc3.at - /etc/yum.conf (0 (null)) /usr/bin/python (0 (null)) 
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages (0 (null)) Requires: (0 (null)) 
libxml2-python (0 (null)) python (2 2.2) rpm (2 4.2) rpm-python (2 4.2) 
yum-phoebe (0 (null))
Provides:
2.1.12-45.rhfc3.at -
Reverse Provides:


If you look, you'[ll see that there is a blank Requires statement in 
there, and apt is freaking out because it can't find a package called "" 
(null string?).  This is exactly what I'm seeing when I try to install yum:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   yum: Depends: Requires: but it is not installable

Those blank depends/requires fields should have a package name of some 
sort to tell me what I need to install, right?

-Chris