Re: yum errors when upgrading fedora

Gerry Reno wrote:
> I have been trying to update a server from FC6 to F7 and I'm getting a 
> lot of dependency errors that really I would expect yum to figure 
> out.  I've been posting on the fedora-devel list but I thought it 
> might be good to post this problem here as well.  As you'll read in my 
> other post, what I don't understand is why yum just doesn't require 
> the packages that have the dep errors to be upgraded so that they will 
> match the newer packages that are already being set to be installed?
>
> http://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=118273483532759&w=2
>
>
This turned out to be the way in which Fedora has packaged F7.  A number 
of packages have moved out of core and extras and so you have to do an 
'Everything' upgrade to get the machine to upgrade from FC6 to F7.