upgrading from rh7.2 to 7.3 -- dependency problem

I'm trying to upgrade a test machine from redhat 7.2 to 7.3; and found a
couple of dependencies that weren't filled properly.

- arts inexplicably goes from v2.2.2 to v1.0.0; rpm spits out an error
  message about a package needing arts-7:1.0.0; but grab doesn't retrieve
  arts-1.0.0 from the 7.3 repository. (this is kind of hard to deal with, I
  know; but I'm just throwing the observation out there in case someone has
  a Clever Idea for dealing with it).

- the XFree86 rpms complain about needing /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir; grab
  doesn't recognize that this is provided by XFree86-font-utils now, instead
  of XFree86-xfs. same with /usr/bin/ttmkfdir (no longer in freetype).

much of the blame for both of these falls on redhat's packaging job, I
think. Still, grab should have at least caught the second one.

on the whole tho; grab is a lifesaver. :) it's definitely keeping up with
apt4rpm; and is more reliable in a lot of ways. (my boss is a fan of
apt4rpm; but it's pretty regularly broken on my box).

Carl Soderstrom
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Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com