Description of problem: previously installed 3rd party font gets lost after yum update Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F10 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch.rpm on f10 2. system update 3. zysong disappeared. Actual results: [root@localhost fonts]# rpm -ivh /home/shao/Download/fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch.rpm warning: /home/shao/Download/fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186 error: Failed dependencies: /usr/sbin/chkfontpath is needed by fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch fonts-chinese >= 3.02-12.el5 is needed by fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch ttmkfdir >= 3.0.6 is needed by fonts-chinese-zysong-0.1-5.el5.noarch Expected results: Additional info:
This is not a problem in Fedora, this is a problem in the third-party font package. It needs to be updated to respect the Fedora packaging conventions (for example we've asked for years not to depend explicitly on ttmkfdir)