Yum has screwed up my system :-(

[Robin Laing]

Johan Henes wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I do not know if this is the right list for this posting, but here I go
> :
> 
> On a FC1 server, a colleague has added freshrpms and ATRPMS in addition
> to the "normal" two repositories for updating Fedora. After a "yum
> update" (and another yum update with the "original yum.conf after that)
> the system looks totally screwed.
> 
> ie. a rpm -q kernel gives "packet not installed"....
> 
> I have tried to repair the rpm database with no success...
> 
> A rpm -qa returns maybe 150 rpms....
> 
> It looks like i have a combination of rpms that really does not like
> eachother :-)
> 
> Is it possible to get the system back to its "normal" state using yum
> with the two original repositories, or are the CDS my only way out ???
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Johan
> 

I was running into problems with yum and up2date on two computers and 
have traced all problems to atrpms repository.  For some reasons their 
  files don't want to work with other repositories as nice as others. 
  I ran into this problem with many little programs on the weekend 
that I had to remove close to 100 atrpm packages and re-install from 
other repositories to clean my system.  Many won't even work nicely 
with the normal fedora updates.  I still have alot of sorting out to do.

My biggest problem has been with their PHP* packages and I have 
submitted a bug report which has been closed but still won't work as 
expected.

I have dropped atrpms from my list of usable repositories.

Note:  This is my experience with atrpms.

-- 
Robin Laing