kernel-headers or glibc-kernheaders

Erwin Rol mailinglists at erwinrol.com
Fri Aug 25 22:49:10 UTC 2006


Myles Green wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:31:18 +0200
> Erwin Rol <mailinglists at erwinrol.com> wrote:
> 
>> Trever L. Adams wrote:
>>> No, we don't. Do a yum clean metadata and then try to reinstall. It
>>> works fine for me on all machines where I did that as was mentioned
>>> yesterday by one of the developers.
>>>
>>> Trever
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 17:02 -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote:
>>>> updated today 08/25/06 and think we have a conflict with
>>>> glibc-kernheaders obsoleting kernel-headers which is a new package.
>> I have a ping pong between glibc-kernheaders and kernel-headers. When i 
>> do a yum update it installs kernel-headers and uninstalls 
>> glibc-kernheaders, if that is done an i run yum update again it installs 
>> glibc-kernheaders and uninstalls kernel-headers, and so on.
>  
> You need to do a 'yum clean metadata' *first*, then do a 'yum update', then
> everything will work properly without a 'ping pong' effect. It was posted
> yesterday in this message:
> 
> From: Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor at redhat.com>
> To: Fedora-devel-list at redhat.com, Fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Cc: 
> Subject: yum metadata cache cleaning needed for next development tree
> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:51:30 -0400
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> 
> A bunch of the packages in the FC development tree were resigned today.
> You will want to run "yum clean metadata" before using tomorrow's push.
> Sorry for the inconvenience.

Well i that and a yum clean all and it still ping pongs, even doing a 
yum clean metadata (or all) between two updates does not change this.

- Erwin




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