Yum update for FC2

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:12:36 -0700, Dave Close wrote:

> >To the best of my knowledge, neither swig-1.3.21-2 nor
> >subversion*1.0.3-1 are packages from Fedora Core 2. There have been
> >subversion updates to 1.0.2, 1.0.4 (two times), 1.0.6 and 1.0.8
> >(latest). And swig in FC2 is swig-1.3.19-6.1.i386.rpm and has not been
> >updated. I assume something might be wrong in your /etc/yum.conf, and
> >the configured set of repositories provide a newer swig which breaks
> >the dependency. So, what's in your /etc/yum.conf?
> 
> Omitting the comments, here 'tis.
> 
>  # cat /etc/yum.conf
>  [main]
>  cachedir=/var/cache/yum
>  debuglevel=2
>  logfile=/var/log/yum.log
>  pkgpolicy=newest
>  distroverpkg=redhat-release
>  tolerant=1
>  exactarch=1
>  retries=20
> 
>  [base]
>  name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
>  baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> 
>  [updates-released]
>  name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
>  baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
> 
> I think this is unchanged except for the log file. Unfortunately, the
> log doesn't go back to the beginning and doesn't show any subversion
> or swig updates.
> 
> I had the same problem on a second machine at one time. But repeated
> attempts eventually worked, and it now shows swig-1.3.19-6.1,
> subversion-perl-1.0.8-1, subversion-1.0.8-1, and subversion-devel-1.0.8-1.
> I don't know the origin of the swig-1.3.21-2.

Which is a pitty. I had hoped to find Fedora Core Development or
Fedora Core 3 Test entries in your configuration file. The package
versions look like they're from Fedora Core 3 Test 1 or so.

> How would you suggest fixing the problem machine? Can I downgrade swig?

"rpm -Uvh --oldpackage swig* subversion*" with the packages from your
installation CDs or downloaded from the web.

Actually, newer versions of the swig package, e.g. in Fedora Core 3
Test releases, changed from providing libswigfoo.so to providing
libswigfoo.so.0 versioned library names, which would break the
dependency in the subversion package.

Btw, you are highly encouraged to choose a mirror server instead
of pointing yum to the primary and often overloaded site.

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