Conflicting yum repositories

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Sat Jan 29 22:43:23 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 23:33 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 05:08:42PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 22:58 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 04:49:48PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > > > I have the following repositories setup for yum, and I'm getting package
> > > > conflicts during updates due to version mismatches:
> > > > 
> > > > atrpms
> > > > atrpms-bleeding
> > > > atrpms-testing
> > > > dag
> > > > dries
> > > > flash
> > > > freshrpms
> > > > jpackage-fedora
> > > > jpackage-generic
> > > > kde-redhat
> > > > kde-redhat-all
> > > > newrpms
> > > > 
> > > > Are there repositories listed above which are known to conflict?
> > > 
> > > No, the repos should be fine (but you are living a bit dangerously
> > > activating testing and bleeding repos).
> > > 
> > > But there is a bug in yum that is triggered by some of the repos most
> > > notably ATrpms:
> > > 
> > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-January/msg01826.html
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144376
> > > http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=289
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140832
> > > 
> > > The bugs seems to have been fixed in yum's CVS, but there hasn't been
> > > as yum release since. You can either use a CVS yum package from ATrpms:
> > > 
> > >    http://atrpms.net/name/yum-bleeding/
> > > 
> > > or use anyother resolver like apt or smart:
> > > 
> > >    http://atrpms.net/name/apt/
> > >    http://atrpms.net/name/smart/
> > 
> > Thanks.  As an example when attempting to update gtk2 and gtk2-devel, a
> > number of dependencies are listed for me, among them:
> > 
> > qt.i386 1:3.3.3-16.3.3.kde
> > qt.i386 1:3.3.3-16_5.rhfc3.at
> > 
> > which will cause a conflict.  So it's the atrpms conflicting with either
> > kde-redhat or kde-redhat-all it seems in this case.
> 
> No, it's the bug above. yum <= 2.1.12 collects multiple packages
> during calculation of dependencies, including old ones.

Will I have to update my yum.conf file as well once I've installed the
CVS version of yum from your repo or will I be able to continue using my
current one?

Thanks.




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