[ATrpms-users] Yum Dependency Errors

[George Galt]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Axel Thimm <axel at thimm.gr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yes, there was an unfortunate upgarde in Fedora including changing ABI
> versions. Not something that should happen within a release IMHO, but
> it does happen in Fedora occasionally.
>
> ffmpeg and mplayer needed a rebuild, which I did yesterday. The
> dependencies are OK again.
>
> What do do if something like that happens? Don't force any installs
> (and thus break your dependency coherency), but use --skip-broken. If
> am important package is blocked, and you need it more than say
> mplayer, you need to decide which one to allow on your system until
> the issue is fixed.
>
> Power users can opt to manually manage the dependencies and later
> smoothen the dependency chain again once all packages have been
> rebuild etc. but please don't suggest this to newbies, or if you do
> recommend these methods only for readers considering themselves
> capable enough to untangle any dependency issues in rpmdb.
>
> Thanks! :)
>
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 01:16:59PM -0000, Chris Jones wrote:
>> I am seeing the following dependency errors reported when doing a Yum
>> update:-
>>
>> Dependency Resolution Errors:
>>
>>
>>
>> Package: libavcodec52-0.7.10-50.fc16.x86_64 (@atrpms)
>>
>>     Requires: libvpx.so.0()(64bit)
>>
>>     Removing: libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.x86_64 (@anaconda-0)
>>
>>         libvpx.so.0()(64bit)
>>
>>     Updated By: libvpx-1.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64 (updates)
>>
>>         Not foundPackage: 4:mplayer-1.0-88_snap20120102.fc16.x86_64
>> (@atrpms)
>>
>>     Requires: libvpx.so.0()(64bit)
>>
>>     Removing: libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.x86_64 (@anaconda-0)
>>
>>         libvpx.so.0()(64bit)
>>
>>     Updated By: libvpx-1.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64 (updates)
>>
>>         Not foundPackage: libavcodec53-0.9-52.fc16.x86_64 (@atrpms)
>>
>>     Requires: libvpx.so.0()(64bit)
>>
>>     Removing: libvpx-0.9.7.1-1.fc16.x86_64 (@anaconda-0)
>>
>>         libvpx.so.0()(64bit)
>>
>>     Updated By: libvpx-1.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64 (updates)
>>
>>         Not found
>>
>>
>>
>> As a result of the above, the following updates cannot be applied:-
>>
>> Firefox-10.0-1.fc16.x86-64
>>
>> Gstreamer-plugins.0.10.22-2.fc16.2.x86-64
>>
>> Libvpx.1.0.0-1.fc16.x86-64
>>
>> Xulrunner.10.0-1.fc16.x86-64
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Chris Jones
>>
>> Mollington Consultants Limited
>>
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Axel:

Thanks for fixing the dependencies and sorry for suggesting a
dangerous path.  FYI, I believe this dependency issue has happened in
both F16 **and** F15.

Thanks for your hard work.

George