up2date problems

From: Charles Jamieson (cjamieson_at_no.junk)
Date: 04/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:07:34 GMT

I am using up2date-4.3.16-1, the latest and greatest!! I have yet to get
a successful install, everytime I use it I get the message

        Unresolvable chain of dependencies

followed by a list of dependencies it could not resolve.

The whole point of up2date is to collect all the dependencies and
download them. I always have to manually download them.

Another problem is that it sometimes tells me a required module is
unavailable, but the module exists on my machine.

Here is an example,

Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2 requires XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-2
XFree86-tools 4.3.0-2 requires XFree86
XFree86-twm 4.3.0-2 requires XFree86
XFree86-twm-4.3.0-2 requires XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-2
XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-2 requires XFree86 = 4.3.0
openoffice 1.0.2-4 requires XFree86
redhat-config-kickstart 2.3.6-4 requires /usr/bin/python2.2
redhat-config-mouse 1.0.5-1 requires /usr/bin/python2.2
redhat-config-users 1.1.5-7 requires /usr/bin/python2.2

The modules on the right are already on my machine.

-charles

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