is yum working? unable to update a system

[William Hooper]

François Patte said:
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> OK. I have kept in my yum.conf, only compatible repositories:
> Fedora.US/Livna
> and commented out the others.
> 
> New attempt this morning:
> 
> 
> 
> [root at totoche root]# yum update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror
> Server: Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror
> Server: Fedora Core 1 updates -- Fedora US mirror
> Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Unreleased Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> ...........................
> Resolving dependencies
> ....Unable to satisfy dependencies
> Package xmms-faad2 needs faad2 = 0:2.0-0.lvn.0.1.rc1.1, this is not
> available.
> 
> I *do not understand*!!!
> 
> 
> 1- I excluded all xmms in yum.conf:
> 
> 
> exclude=zinf* php-domxml xmms* mplayer*

You excluded them from which server?  It looks to me like you have excluded them from one server, but not another.

It would also be helpful to pass the "-d" switch to get more debugging output from yum.  Read about it in "man yum".

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William Hooper