Description of problem: Yum update (7/6/2012) fails on alchemist dependencies Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): alchemist-1.0.37-8.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: Don't know Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum update Actual results: Update fails with request to report bug Expected results: Update succeeds Additional info: yum update ..... Running Transaction Check ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve: python(abi) = 2.6 is needed by (installed) alchemist-1.0.37-8.fc12.x86_64 python-abi = 2.6 is needed by (installed) alchemist-1.0.37-8.fc12.x86_64 Please report this error in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide&component=yum ** Found 2 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: alchemist-1.0.37-8.fc12.x86_64 has missing requires of python(abi) = ('0', '2.6', None) alchemist-1.0.37-8.fc12.x86_64 has missing requires of python-abi = ('0', '2.6', None) Your transaction was saved, rerun it with: yum load-transaction /tmp/yum_save_tx.2012-05-07.00-23.J2g7cB.yumtx python --version Python 2.7.2
What are you trying to update from and to? Note that Fedora 12 has been EOL for quite some time.
F16 -> F16. This is a system that has been upgraded a few times. It looks like one of the upgrades, possibly F12->f13, forgot to remove alchemist (alchemist doesn't seem to be in the subsequent repos at all).
Right, the simple fix would have to be to remove it; there's not much else we can do here.
Thanks Bill; that's what I did as soon as I got the error - I only reported it because it asked me to 8^). All the Best, Bob