yum upgrade error http 404 on tsclient rpm

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Mon Jun 25 13:54:43 UTC 2007


Florian Festi wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
>> I went and looked at the list of packages and dependencies again and 
>> it looks like some of the missing dependencies are for packages that 
>> have been marked for update to newer versions.  So why isn't yum 
>> requiring newer versions of the packages for which it is complaining 
>> the dependencies are missing?  Yum depsolv seems to be messed up.  
>> Using yum 3.0.6.
>
> Check if those packages are installed twice with different versions. 
> It is also possible that some multilib issues keeps some older 
> versions from being removed during the update. yum doesn't handle such 
> situations as graciously
> as one could image. So some manual help may be required.
>
> Florian Festi
>
I went and checked just a few of the packages and I don't see anything 
installed twice:
# yum list mysql
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    
00:00    
updates                   100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    
00:00    
freshrpms                 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    
00:00    
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 2.6 MB    
00:07    
fedora    : ################################################## 7401/7401
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  56 kB    
00:00    
freshrpms : ################################################## 152/152
Installed Packages
mysql.i386                               5.0.27-1.fc6           
installed      
Available Packages
mysql.i386                               5.0.37-2.fc7           
fedora         
[root at grp-01-30-02 ~]# rpm -q mysql
mysql-5.0.27-1.fc6
[root at grp-01-30-02 ~]#
[root at grp-01-30-02 ~]#
[root at grp-01-30-02 ~]# yum list k3b
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
k3b.i386                                 0.12.17-1              
installed      
Available Packages
k3b.i386                                 1.0.1-1.fc7            
updates        
[root at grp-01-30-02 ~]# rpm -q k3b
k3b-0.12.17-1
[root at grp-01-30-02 ~]#
[root at grp-01-30-02 ~]# yum list gcc
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
gcc.i386                                 4.1.1-51.fc6           
installed      
Available Packages
gcc.i386                                 4.1.2-12               
fedora         
[root at grp-01-30-02 ~]# rpm -q gcc
gcc-4.1.1-51.fc6

So what are my options here?  I can't even install just one package to 
check if for instance updating k3b would fix the missing dependency 
because yum now wants to check 'all' the dependencies for all the 
packages that have been marked for update. 





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