yum update for icedtea on Fedora 8

[Andrew Haley]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 21:35 -0500, Michael Franz wrote:
>> A few weeks ago I installed Fedora 8 did the yum update from the build
>> requirements (http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/BuildRequirements).  A
>> week later I did a clean install (replaced some hard drives) and tried
>> the same command.  It keeps failing:
>> file /etc/gre.d/gre.conf from install of
>> xulrunner-1.9-0.beta2.18.nightly20080210.fc9.i386 conflicts with file
>> from package firefox-2.0.0.10-3.fc8.i386
>>
>> Is there a way to work around this?
> 
> On Fedora 8 you don't need the part that says
> "--enablerepo=development". If you leave that out it will install all
> the packages without looking at the development/rawhide repo and won't
> try to pull in a beta firefox/xulrunner.

Indeed.  I think we should drop the suggestion to use "--enablerepo=development".
It causes more problems than it solves, particularly now that gcc 4.3 is in
the development repo.

Andrew.