From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 Description of problem: This a live problem, and no work around for Fedora Core 2 has been mentioned in the related bugs 123680 and 123697. What is the point of releasing an update to ppp, if we cannot upgrade? Please provide a work arouind, rather than simply close this as fixed, duplicate. I don't see any flag in yum to overide the error and to force the upgrade. Thanks. Gavin Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum 2.0.7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.yum update ppp* 2. 3. Actual Results: # yum update ppp* Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror Server: Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror retrygrab() failed for: ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable/headers/header.info Executing failover method Server: Fedora Core 2 updates -- Fedora US mirror retrygrab() failed for: ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl/pub/Linux/ftp.fedora.us/2/i386/RPMS.updates/headers/header.info Executing failover method retrygrab() failed for: ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.updates/headers/header.info Executing failover method Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .conflict between initscripts and pppd # Expected Results: ppp upgrade without errors Additional info:
From my reading of the bugs referenced here, it doesn't look like a yum bug at all. It's looks to be a ppp packaging problem and/or an rpm bug. Anyhow, you can override the dependency problem by grabbing the ppp rpm and installing using 'rpm -i --nodeps' instead of using yum. But I would have hoped to see a quicker fix from Red Hat. I find it quite maddening that an update was released without a simple upgrade test on a system dedicated for update testing. I know some of the rpm related problems listed in the bugs referenced in this bug are complex, but it would have been a simple matter to NOT add the dependency on a non-versioned pppd if it causes problems, at least for the time being. IF indeed the dependency on a non-versioned pppd is even correct. Please, remove the bad dep and issue a ppp-2.4.2-3.FC2.2.i386.rpm update ;-)
In my opinion, however correct the "provides: pppd" line is in the new ppp package, it should not have been released on the fc2-updates channel given that it conflicts with the installed system. By all means keep it in for future Fedora versions, but remove the line from the spec file before releasing it on FC2.
This is a ppp, not an rpm, problem. Reassigning ...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127554 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.