[Yum] dependency loop exceeded

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:16, Nick Marsh wrote:
> # yum -y update XFree86
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 base
> Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> ......identical dependency loop exceeded
> package XFree86-twm needs XFree86 = 4.2.0 (not provided)
> package XFree86-twm needs XFree86 = 4.2.0 (not provided)
> package XFree86-xdm needs XFree86 = 4.2.0 (not provided)
> package XFree86-xdm needs XFree86 = 4.2.0 (not provided)
> 
> WTH? I htought YUM was supposed to handle that. How can I fix this?
> 


1. need a version of yum.
2. need a version of rpm

I think the bug you're seeing has been fixed in cvs
  could you send the above two things and try:

yum -y update XFree86-\*

thanks
-sv