Yumex is weird [SOLVED]

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri May 12 14:32:36 UTC 2006


Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 16:31 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>> ______________________________   snip______________________  
>>> I had a similar problem, fixed it with a removal of just about 
>>> everything in /var/cache/yum/reponame.  It took about 20 minutes to dl 
>>> it all from scratch, but it fixed it.
>>>
>> I dl the new yumex-1.0.1-1.0fc5 and deleted the cache of 'core' and 
>> 'base' and yumex now has no problems.
>>
>>   Thanks Gene.
>>
>>   david
>>
> 
> Consider sometime trying kyum.  It seems both mature and stable.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=144215
> 
> It's available off the repos.

It also has a rather nasty bug that the upstream author doesn't consider 
to be a bug:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=757997&aid=1362350&group_id=144215

So watch out if you're a livna user or any of your repo files have 
multiple baseurl values.

Paul.




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