odd yum dependency issues in joyride

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:43 AM,  <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> i've been slowly moving my g1g1 machine forward to joyride (from 656).
> i had customized it quite a bit, and am trying to restore those changes.
> i've got xfce running, but a couple of yum dependencies (which were fine
> with F7) are failing.
>
> to wit:
>
> # yum install gcc
[...]
>  --> Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by package glibc-2.8-3.i686 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by package glibc-2.8-3.i686 (installed)

Seems strongly related to trac #5056.

> # yum install firefox
[...]
> Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.9.0.1 is needed by package firefox-3.0.1-1.fc9.i386 (olpc_development)

Hmm, this might be a more fundamental mismatch, since we have a
specific version of gecko used for Browse.  You could always download
the standalone (unpackaged .tar.gz) version of Firefox.

Dennis?
 --scott



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