From your information I take that your update program wants to warn you from
installing library updates that would kinda override older versions of the same packages.
Why could this be a danger ? Some programms seem to be dependant to those
older versions of your libraries but likely not compatible with the updates of the
same files. This can happen due to development limitations and should be resolved
by also updating those elder programs that desperately need your libraries.
So ideally you should find out which programms are dependent to your library packages,
maybe it's third party programs that are not available from your distributions server.
Else you could risk some malfunction of other programs. Actually your update program
should tell you in detail, so that you can take action.
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by: Rance_HallPosted on 2007-02-15 at 10:10:41ID: 18542457
Sometimes as packages change, they depend on new packages that are added to the repository.
sometimes when that happens they dont get added correctly and automatic updates dont quite work as expected.
Sometimes up2date doesnt give you enough debugging output to figure out what to do exactly
in a regular terminal as root type this
yum update
the yum updater will run and it will download headers for all new rpms and then is will output a list of what needs to be installed as ask you to confirm.
It should also show you what other packages are being installed as a dependency.
If that doesnt work, read "man yum" for specific command line options to give yum to make it do what you want.
I gave up on up2date long ago.
havent had trouble since.