From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686) Opera 7.54 [en] Description of problem: # yum update Error: xorg-x11-font-utils conflicts: xorg-x11-base-fonts<= 6.7.99. 903-3 Error: missing dep: iiimf-server for pkg iiimf-le-sun-asia Even after "yum update yum rpm python", same thing. Even though yum should not simply fail after a simple error, this problem may have something to do with the headers and packages in the repository. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.1.3-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.yum update 2. 3. Actual Results: Error: xorg-x11-font-utils conflicts: xorg-x11- base-fonts<= 6.7.99.903-3 Error: missing dep: iiimf-server for pkg iiimf-le-sun-asia Expected Results: Update to current packages. Additional info: Is this exclusively a yum problem, or is the problem triggered by the files in the repository?
run yum with: yum --obsoletes update and see if that resolves this problem. I think it will
Yes, that worked. Since the current "yum" man page still talks about the "upgrade" command - which no longer works, and does not mention the "--obsoletes" option to the "update" command, then this looks like a man-page/documentation problem. Something for the "yum" maintainers...
"yum --obsoletes update" does not fix the problem, because yum-2.0.7 (FC2) does not support --obsoletes: # yum -c /etc/yum.testing --obsoletes update Options Error: option --obsoletes not recognized ... I.e. yum's inability to handle this conflict, prevents upgrading FC2 systems to FC3test2, because "yum --obsoletes" is only applicable if yum >= 2.1 had been installed beforehand (E.g. if yum from FC3 had been installed on FC2, before the "big update".)
umm just run: yum update yum then do the yum --osboletes update.
That's exactly what I had meant with my "i.e. ..." comment. Not necessarily a show stopper for yum-2.1.x, but ... ... my testing system is an old i586/166MHz system ... On this system each "yum update" run takes such an amount of time (several 10mins), such that is rather annoying having to discover yum to give in later. FWIW: On this system, yum-2.1.x's "initial dependency computation" reaches almost the same amount of time of yum-2.0.x's headers download had consumed (~1 hour).
reading in a lot of data on 166mhz system is going to take a while. That's really all there is to it.
Yum is much faster in FC4 release. This bug report probably should be closed