[Yum-devel] Packages depending on an older version of themselves

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 07:29 +1000, Menno Smits wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> >>I don't think the repodata has changed and I don't use mirrors so I 
> >>assume this related to the change you made...
> > 
> > 
> > Right - but it';s an unresolveable situation.
> > 
> > The system wants to update to the new wireless tools.
> > 
> > the new wireless tools does not provide libiw.so.27
> > 
> > NetworkManager requires it.
> > 
> > There's no way to install both.
> > 
> > so it unresolveable.
> 
> Yep, I see. I may report this as a packaging bug.

It's been reported and wireless-tools-28 is being held back while
NetworkManager is fixed. Same problem with kdenetwork, too.


> For now, my resolution is "yum remove NetworkManager" :)
> 
> Thanks for looking at this.

No problem - it's nice to have a reasonable fix for it - as it affects
other things in the depresolution.

-sv