[Yum] Problem Upgrading from RH 7.3 to 8.0

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed May 18 17:24:24 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:54 -0400, Jake Colman wrote:
> Seth,
> 
> So do I now have a catch-22 situation?  Since 'apache' changed to 'httpd' the
> squirrelmail package gets upset.  But a newer squirrelmail will need httpd
> which I don't yet have and cannot get!  How do I break the circle?
> 
> Once I do break this circle, will a 'yum upgrade' work without the issues
> reported by my 'yum update'?  I would hope so since the 'upgrade; knows
> what's obsolete and should take care of itself, right?

No, all you have to do is:
 1. provide a new squirrelmail package in another repo
 or
 2. remove squirrelmail temporarily, update your system, put back a
squirrelmail rpm that works.

-sv





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