Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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!
Does you rpm db says XFree86-libs is not installed ? Can you send me a bug report using urpmi --bug ? Thanks, François.
