yum

[lightismagic]

Hi guys,
I have a problem with yum. I just want to update to the new version of xorg but yum cannot solve this two dependencies: xorg-x11-lib-0.6.7-2.x86_64 and xorg-x11-lib-0.6.7-2.i386.
Both are installed on the system and <yum list installed> shows them. <yum search xorg-x11-lib> doesn't find the packages on the other hand. Did an updatedb twice, with no result .I downloaded the two packages and tried to install them with rpm, I got the message that they are already installed. I think this is quite obvious because in my understanding the are part of the basic xorg installation and are installed with the basic system installation.
Is there any way to make yum find this packages? I tried up2date also (showing me this flashing red 'thing' in the panel, but it crashes when trying to solve the dependencies...

kind regards
lightismagic

[triplehead]

i had same problem when i installed fc 2 to new harddrive. I was really amazed because yum has worked beautifully before. Finally i installed new packages (ones which cause the conflict) with "rpm -nodeps". This is bad way to do this, but i have previous versions installed (according to rpm -q and yum) and this way problem was solved ;)

[lightismagic]

I think I found the problem - it was a bit of misunderstandig the dependencies by myself. Seems that the problem was that xorg-x11-devel-6.7.0-5.i386 was not present in the x86_64 respositories yesterday. So yum was not able to update the old 6.7.0-2 version and that's why yum wants also the old libraries as dependencies. Today the 6.7.0-5 version is present and yum worked without a problem.
But I think this will not answer your question triplehead...?

kind regards