Resolving Lib dependencies

[ewinb]

If the answer to this is obvious, please forgive me. When running a simple yum update in FC5, several missing dependencies come up. They all track down to be a missing lib.

For example, rhythmbox needs libnautilus-burn.so.2, device-mapper needs libdevmaper.so.1, evolution needs libdbus-glib-1.so.1, etc.

How do I cleanly fix this so I don't contaminate my FC5 libs with non-FC5 compiles (like what might happen if I just went RPMFIND and started downloading).

[codergeek42]

Rawhide (the development tree, what will become FC5) tends to have broken dependencies a lot as a result of new packages being added, rebuilt, modified, etc. as times goes by. According to the archives (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-December/msg00061.html), these broken dependencies were known. Just exclude them as needed with `yum --exclude=package1 --exclude=package2 update` etc. You may want to subscribe to fedora-test-list (https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list/) to keep track of these messages from the build system and other testers. :)

Hope that helps.

[smfinley]

You might want to read this (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JefSpaleta/TestingManifesto).