Yum update problem

Gustavo Seabra seabra at ksu.edu
Thu Feb 3 17:55:44 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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.
>
Great :-(
So, what should I do to get updates? Disable one of them or just wait 
until they resolve the conflicts?

Thanks again,

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Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student
Chemistry Department
Kansas State University
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