On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 19:38, Adam Williamson wrote: > Having a real annoying problem trying to update my laptop. When I do an > urpmi --auto-select, I just get a list as long as your arm of > dependencies on bits of XFree86-libs that would be broken, here's a > sample: > > libXrandr.so.2 is needed by (installed) gtkhtml3.0-3.0.2-2mdk > libXrandr.so.2 is needed by (installed) libgimp14-1.3.14-2mdk > libXrandr.so.2 is needed by (installed) gimp1_3-1.3.14-2mdk > libXrandr.so.2 is needed by (installed) XFree86-4.3-8mdk > > Etc etc etc. There's over five hundred lines of that, but what it > DOESN'T tell me is what I need to know, i.e., what it is that's trying > to uninstall XFree86-libs (which is what I presume the problem is). > Since it needs to update a lot of packages, going through them > individually the find the one that's causing the problem would be a lot > of effort on my part, which is irritating. a), does anyone have any > ideas what could be causing this, and b), it seems to make the case for > some improvement to urpmi output...
OK, thanks to a neat suggestion from misc_ in IRC (thanks), I've tracked it down. Check this out: One of the following packages is needed: 1- XFree86-libs-4.3-8mdk.i586 2- Mesa-5.0.1-3mdk.i586 What is your choice? (1-2) That can't be right! -- adamw
