Package updater broke?

[Jim Cornette]

John Bowden wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 01:44 +0000, John Bowden wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 20:32 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
>>> John Bowden wrote:
>>>> Hi List.
>>>> I have been off line for nearly two weeks due to my broad band
>>>> connection failing. As soon as I got my connection up I went to the
>>>> Software updater to check for any up dates and as expected it gave me a
>>>> long list. First I selected all the packages but kept getting error
>>>> messages complaining about unresolved dependencies. I then selected each
>>>> package one at a time and get the same unresolved dependencies message
>>>> for each package (I have tried the first 12 packages so far). I thought
>>>> the package updater was supposed to sort out the dependencies
>>>> automatically? Any ideas whats wrong?
>>>> john
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You might try to open a root terminal and run yum clean all. Maybe there 
>>> are old headers left over since the time you last updated that it is 
>>> using as reference to packages.
>>>
>>> After cleaning up the headers, you might as well try running yum update 
>>> from the CLI since you are already there. You will probably get more 
>>> descriptive error outputs from the output of yum if it still fails.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> If you don't have time to do it right, where are you going to find the time
>>> to do it over?
>>>
>> After posting my last email I had a quick look at "man yum" and then
>> tried yum update after su-ing. It did update most but failed on a lot of
>> others. will try your clean all command
>>
>>
> That seems to have worked much better. Just two error messages:-
> 
> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/i386/wine-docs-0.9.27-1.fc7.noarch.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: wine-docs-0.9.27-1.fc7.noarch.rpm from
> extras-development: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> [root at localhost led]# 
> 
> I'm guessing these are caused by these sites being down, hopefully
> temporarily, so I will leave it for now and have another go later on
> today when I get up. Thanks for your help
> Regards John
> 
> 

I just noticed that you must have the extras development repository 
enabled. Are you running FC6 or development? You might need to edit 
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras-development.repo file and change 
enabled=1 to enabled=0

Jim

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