[Yum] Yum Dependency Resolution algorithm clarification

[seth vidal]

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