When I try to do "yum update" against the development repo, I get this during the update transaction: ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: Package vixie-cron conflicts with sysklogd < 1.4.1. Complete! and then the transaction aborts there, i.e., no update actually happens. Note that I have rsyslog-1.17.1-1.fc8 installed and do *not* have sysklogd installed. Note also that it does not appear that yum is actually trying to update vixie-cron. There is no sysklogd installed, so there is no conflict between vixie-cron and sysklogd < 1.4.1.
Tried "yum upgrade" instead of "yum update"; it didn't help. I have yum-3.2.2-1.fc8.
This apparently isn't a yum-only problem. When I try to use "rpm -Fvh" on all the RPMs downloaded by yum, I get, "sysklogd < 1.4.1 conflicts with vixie-cron-4.1-84.fc8.i386".
(I have rpm-4.4.2.1-0.6.rc3.)
My guess is that sysklogd gets pulled into the transaction set through the vixie-cron dependency on virtual "syslog" provide or something like that. Please check yum output carefully (or attach the full output of the update attempt)...
rsyslog in rawhide yesterday has a bogus provides that's causing this; it's been fixed and built, but rawhide today died during the compose