[Yum] Yum Dependency Resolution algorithm clarification

Russell Harrison rtlm10 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 6 04:19:14 UTC 2006


Can you point me to the bug?  Red Hat's BZ I assume.

I'm wondering why doing a clean all resolved the issue.

On 6/6/06, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 23:43 -0400, Russell Harrison wrote:
> > I'm seeing something very similar to this.
> >
> > yum from FC5 -- 2.6.1
> >
> > I'm trying to install some devel packages so that install command
> > yields:
> >
> > . . .
> > --> Processing Dependency: libedata-cal-1.2.so.1 for package:
> > evolution-connector
> > --> Processing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.3 for package:
> > evolution-sharp
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.3 is needed by package
> > evolution-webcal
> > . . .
> >
> > when I do "yum provides libecal-1.2.so.3"  I get:
> >
> > . . .
> > evolution-data-server.i386               1.6.1-1.fc5.2
> > installed
> > Matched from:
> > /usr/lib/libecal-1.2.so.3
> > /usr/lib/libecal-1.2.so.3.2.8
> > libecal-1.2.so.3
> > . . .
> >
> > It seems like this shouldn't be resolved as missing.  I'm trying a
> > "yum clean all" before my next shot at installing but the fedora
> > mirrors seem to stay consistently out of sync or something since the
> > Metadata never seems to match the file yum downloads from most of the
> > mirrors.
>
> This is a broken evolution-data-server package. A bug has already been
> filed about it in bugzilla.
>
> -sv
>
>
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