Yum update problem

[Paul Howarth]

Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> I run yum update as a cron job every morning. Today I got this message 
> from cron:
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
> 
> Transaction Check Error:   package liboil-0.2.2-1.1.fc3.rf (which is 
> newer than liboil-0.2.2-1.1.fc3.fr) is already installed
>   file /usr/lib/liboiltmp1.so.0.0.0 conflicts between attempted installs 
> of liboil-0.2.2-1.1.fc3.fr and liboil-0.3.0-1
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> Does anybody knows what does that mean?
> 
> yum info liboil gives me 2 answers:
> 
> Name   : liboil
> Arch   : i386
> Version: 0.2.2
> Release: 1.1.fc3.rf
> Size   : 865 k
> Repo   : installed
> 
> and
> 
> Name   : liboil
> Arch   : i386
> Version: 0.3.0
> Release: 1
> Size   : 102 k
> Repo   : fedora-extras
> 
> So I'd think the addition of *fedora-extras* repo  to my repos 
> (yesterday) may have something to do with it, but I'm too novice to know 
> anything more than that. :-)
> 
> I have my repos installed in *.repo files:
> $] ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
> atrpms.repo         fedora.repo                  kde-redhat.repo
> dag.repo            fedora-updates.repo          kde-stable.repo_old
> fedora-devel.repo   fedora-updates-testing.repo  livna-stable.repo
> fedora-extras.repo  freshrpms.repo
> 
> where only the /stable/ parts are enabled.
> 
> I'd really appreciate any hints here.

It would seem that fedora extras conflicts with the rpmforge repos (Dag 
& friends), which will come as no great surprise to anybody.

Paul.