is yum working? unable to update a system
François Patte
francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr
Tue Jun 29 17:38:17 UTC 2004
I try to update my system and it seems to be impossible using yum (I
have already sent some messages).
First attemp:
---->
[root at totoche root]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: ATrpms for Fedora Core 1 stable
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Server: Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
Server: FreshRPM
Server: JPackage 1.5 for Fedora Core 1
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
retrygrab() failed for:
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/headers/header.info
Executing failover method
Server: Fedora Core 1 NewRPMS.sunsite.dk
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
.Package mplayer-mencoder needs libxvidcore.so.2, this is not
available.
<----
libxvidcore.so.2 belongs to xvidcore-0.9.2-0.lvn.1.1 which is in livna
repository!!!
Second attemp (for the fun, it occurs many times):
--->
[root at totoche root]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: ATrpms for Fedora Core 1 stable
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Damaged or Bad header.info from Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
This is probably because of a downed server or an invalid header.info
on a repository.
<----
Tried two or three times more, changing repositories, then:
[root at totoche root]# rpm -e mplayer-mencoder
Next attempt:
--->
[root at totoche root]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: ATrpms for Fedora Core 1 stable
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Server: Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
Server: FreshRPM
Server: JPackage 1.5 for Fedora Core 1
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Fedora Core 1 NewRPMS.sunsite.dk
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
mplayer-mencoder-0-0.92-0 100% |=========================| 4.0 kB
00:00
Resolving dependencies
......Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package php-domxml needs libxsltbreakpoint.so.1, this is not
available.
Package xmms-mp3 needs xmms = 1.2.7, this is not available.
Package xmms-faad2 needs faad2 = 0:2.0-0.lvn.0.2.rc1.1, this is not
available.
Package xmms-alsa needs xmms = 1:1.2.8, this is not available.
Package zinf-arts needs zinf = 2.2.4, this is not available.
Package zinf-esd needs zinf = 2.2.4, this is not available.
Package zinf-extras needs zinf = 2.2.4, this is not available.
Package zinf-rio needs zinf = 2.2.4, this is not available.
Package zinf-vorbis needs zinf = 2.2.4, this is not available.
Package mplayer-gui needs mplayer = 0:0.92-0.lvn.1.1, this is not
available.
Package xmms-normalize needs normalize = 0:0.7.6-0.lvn.7.1, this is
not available.
<----
most of these packages are available in the repositories I used....
So, I changed my yum.conf:
....
exclude=zinf* php-domxml xmms* mplayer*
.....
Last attempt (after many others with errors in headers, url not found,
whatever....):
--->
[root at totoche root]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: ATrpms for Fedora Core 1 stable
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Server: Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
Server: FreshRPM
Server: JPackage 1.5 for Fedora Core 1
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Fedora Core 1 NewRPMS.sunsite.dk
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
.Package mplayer needs libxvidcore.so.2, this is not available.
<----
I recall: mplayer is excluded in yum.conf, but yum doesn't care!
Any help?
--
François Patte.
Inde :
École Française d'Extrême-Orient
Deccan College
Pune 411006 - Inde
Tél : (00 91) (0)20 26 69 39 04
France :
François Patte. UFR de mathématiques et informatique.
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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