yum BUG on update from FC6 to F7

[Michael Schwendt]

On 04/12/2007, Martin Marques <martin at marquesminen.com.ar> wrote:
> I'm getting some annoying errors when trying to upgrade directly with
> yum from FC6 to F7.
>
> Basically there's a problem with python and authconfig and gamin-python.
> What's really strange is that if I try to update directly with the rpm
> file yum says that authconfig isn't installed, but rpm thinks diferently.
>
> [root at linus ~]# yum update
> /var/fedora/Fedora/authconfig-5.3.13-4.fc7.i386.rpm
> Loading "downloadonly" plugin
> Loading "priorities" plugin
> Loading "kmdl" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 688 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> Examining /var/fedora/Fedora/authconfig-5.3.13-4.fc7.i386.rpm:
> authconfig - 5.3.13-4.fc7.i386
> /var/fedora/Fedora/authconfig-5.3.13-4.fc7.i386.rpm: does not update
> installed package.
> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
> [root at linus ~]# rpm -q authconfig
> authconfig-5.3.18-0.1.fc6
>
> Any ideas?

5.3.18 is greater than 5.3.13, so the fc6 package is newer.