From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Red Hat/1.0.3-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: devhelp requires Mozilla 1.7.7. Mozilla 1.7.8 was pushed out today as per RHSA-2005:435-06. Systems with devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.4 installed will fail to update to 1.7.8 due to the reliance on Mozilla 1.7.7. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run up2date. 2. Choose to update Mozilla. 3. Watch up2date fail to resolve dependencies. Actual Results: Dependencies fail to resolve, packages go un-updated. Expected Results: devhelp updated along with new mozilla to version built against new mozilla. Additional info:
If this helps anybody, there is a simple workaround: 1. Run "rpm -e devhelp" to remove the dependency. 2. Run "up2date". 3. Download devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.4.i386.rpm (change i386 to whatever your platform is, if neccessary) from RHN. 4. Install with "rpm -ivh --nodeps devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.4.i386.rpm". 5. Open /usr/bin/devhelp and change (obviously) the line MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.7 to MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.8 The reason why this is neccessary is because devhelp is linked against libgtkembedmoz, which unfortunately sits in a version-specific path. Contrary to Comment #1, I think there is no actual need to relink against the new libgtkembedmoz. Maybe it would be a better structure if libraries such as libgtkembedmoz are available from /usr/lib/mozilla (e.g. using symbolic links), so that you do not have to carry a pile of package dependencies with each Mozilla minor release.
Slight correctio to Comment #2: It is also linked against libxpcom.so, and furthermore, the libraries expect themselves to be inside a version specific Mozilla directory, so my last paragraph is wrong.
Fixed, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-435.html