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Moblin and Maemo to merge

Posted Feb 18, 2010 12:57 UTC (Thu) by xav (subscriber, #18536)
In reply to: Moblin and Maemo to merge by michich
Parent article: Moblin and Maemo to merge

Sorry, I don't have a Fedora system at hand.
On an RHEL 5.3 I have some of these:
Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.60()(64bit) is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.8-4.el5.1.x86_64 (installed)

(I didn't instal anything by hand, all through yum).
The system works, but I can't add/update anything.

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Posted Feb 18, 2010 13:01 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Since EL doesn't even include this package and you must have installed it
via a third party repository its probably a breakage related to them and
has nothing to do with RPM itself

Moblin and Maemo to merge

Posted Feb 18, 2010 14:07 UTC (Thu) by xav (subscriber, #18536) [Link]

Whatever. Installing from the widely used repository for multimedia addons shouldn't break the system. On a debian systeem it doesn't. On my N900 it doesn't. On Fedora the desktop didn't even work (nautilus stuck waiting in GIO).

Moblin and Maemo to merge

Posted Feb 18, 2010 14:35 UTC (Thu) by michich (subscriber, #17902) [Link]

Installing from the widely used repository for multimedia addons shouldn't break the system. On a debian systeem it doesn't. On my N900 it doesn't.

On my Fedora it doesn't either. And on Fedoras of any other Fedora users I know.

On Fedora the desktop didn't even work (nautilus stuck waiting in GIO).

I have no idea what could cause such a problem, but it's likely unrelated to RPM.

Moblin and Maemo to merge

Posted Feb 18, 2010 14:21 UTC (Thu) by michich (subscriber, #17902) [Link]

I don't see how a missing dependency in the installed set would prevent the installation of new packages. I tried to reproduce (installed gstreamer-plugins-bad from rpmfusion on RHEL5.4, then forced the removal of x264-libs with --nodeps), but it works for me (package-cleanup --problems is aware of the missing dependency, and yum update and yum install work normally).

You should definitely be able to either remove the package with the missing dependency, or use yum update --skip-broken if you just want to update other packages.

If none of this helps, I'd like to see a more complete bug report.