[Yum] Problem Upgrading from RH 7.3 to 8.0

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "sv" == seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> writes:

   sv> 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?

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

Yes, this worked.  I removed squirrelmail and the dependency issue went
away.  When the upgrade completes I'll install a newer version of
squirrelmail.

Thanks!

...Jake

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