[Yum] Trouble resolving conflicts during a yum update or upgrade

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:57 -0500, Chris Pine wrote:
> Seth and all,
>      I appreciate the response but after running yum upgrade I still have
> the exact same conflicts.  Is there a way to force an upgrade or better yet
> inspect more of what is hanging up yum?  I tried the verbosity options for
> yum and couldn't really get them to work.  I also thought I could look up
> the requirements of the packages and manually check them using rpm.
> 

I'd suggest looking  at the packages it is looking to for updates and
running:

rpm -qp --conflicts on them

find out why they are showing explicit conflicts.
-sv