Re: [Hampshire] FC8 dependency circularity

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 11:14 +0000, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all and a much belated happy new year
>
> Having fun with FC8 this morning. I've only recently got it up and running
> and unsurprisingly it now wants to update 420 odd packages. I thought -
> why not - and told it to do so all at once. Another unsurprising result -
> dependency conflicts. Trouble is - two of them - I can't resolve and my
> FC8 inexperience is stopping me working my way around it.
>
> The two in question are firefox and xulrunner. I've unchecked both in the
> list of updates but I'm still getting:
>
> file /etc/gre.d/gre.conf from install of xulrunner-1.9-0.beta2.7.fc9
> conflicts with file from package firefox-2.0.0.8-2.fc8

How did you manage to install a Fedora9 package in the first place?
xulrunner-1.9-0.beta2.7.fc9 <-- isn't a Fedora 8 package.

I'd clear out the stuff related to xulrunner first.


Rob.