F10 -> rawhide update failure

[nodata]

Am Samstag, den 21.03.2009, 10:30 -0500 schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 15:29:20 +0100,
>   nodata <lsof at nodata.co.uk> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 21.03.2009, 09:28 -0500 schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
> > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 23:18:13 +0100,
> > >   nodata <lsof at nodata.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > and I can't do a yum localinstall
> > > > rpm-libs-4.7.0-0.beta1.3.fc11.x86_64.rpm due to this:
> > > > warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key
> > > > ID d22e77f2
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Public key for rpm-libs-4.7.0-0.beta1.3.fc11.x86_64.rpm is not installed
> > > 
> > > --nogpgcheck will work around that.
> > 
> > But then I got caught again by the audit-libs arch dependencies.. ugh.
> 
> What I have done to get around conflicts with updates in some situations is
> yum erase followed by yum install. As long as the list of dependencies doesn't
> include anything you can't do without for the duration of the erase and
> reinstall, this will solve some problems that can be hard to work around.
> Sometimes I have to leave things that are part of a broken dependency
> uninstalled in order to be able to update other stuff. I have a list of
> stuff like this and test reinstalling them after getting a new set of
> rawhide updates.

My problem was that the list of dependencies included yum, and since rpm
was broken, removing yum would have left me in a bad state.

I think the F10->rawhide update instructions are wrong. yum update yum
then yum update did not work.