On 03/11/2007, david walcroft d_j_w46@bigpond.net.au wrote:
I have just done another 'yum update' for the third time today and yum download 87 updates and cleaned up my dependency problem. I notice that If I wait a couple of days dependency problems tend to resolve them selves.
You are confused. There have not been any huge updates for this. For example, "metakit" (see above quote) for stock Fedora 7 is unchanged since May 23rd and does NOT require python(abi) = 2.4 (which is Fedora Core 6 and older), but python(abi) = 2.5. A simple upgrade to Fedora 7 would have replaced it with the f7 package already. Same applies to python-imaging-tk (... and I haven't checked the others).
$ rpm -qpR metakit-2.4.9.6-1.fc7.i386.rpm |grep py python(abi) = 2.5
I had not been able to download for a week hence the 87 rpm's . I did an upgrade install from FC6 > FC7 at the release of FC7.
Have you read the paragraph above? After an "upgrade install from FC6
FC7 at the release of FC7" you would not have a metakit package
which requires python(abi) = 2.4, ... which is one of the problems quoted in your original mail. It is explained above. Perhaps your upgrade was incomplete/interrupted/whatever. But that still doesn't explain why your "yum update" attempt failed and got access to 87 additional packages a few days later. Hence your conclusions wrt updates are wrong.