avahi failed to update correctly after yum upgrade to F8

[Joel Gomberg]

Claude Jones wrote:
> I tried the yum update method F7-F8 on my home computer last night, and it 
> worked fairly well. The machine is up and running, but, a few problems:
> 
> I'll list them in separate posts, but, the first is that avahi failed to 
> update correctly. I now have this:
> 
> # rpm -qa | grep avahi
> avahi-0.6.21-6.fc8
> avahi-qt3-0.6.21-6.fc8
> avahi-compat-howl-0.6.21-6.fc8
> avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.21-6.fc8
> avahi-devel-0.6.21-6.fc8
> kdnssd-avahi-devel-0.1.3-0.2.20060713svn.fc8
> kdnssd-avahi-0.1.3-0.2.20060713svn.fc8
> avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7
> avahi-glib-0.6.21-6.fc8
> 
> So, I have two versions of avahi, now - the fc7 and fc8 
> Attempts to remove avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7 result in an error:
> 
> # rpm -e avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7
> error: %postun(avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> 
> I get a similar message using smart, yum, or kpackage
> 
> Can anyone give me an idea of how to proceed?
>  
 From the Yum upgrade FAQ 
[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#head-56b13936246769f517ac488a0098d193c7fc3600]:

The Fedora 7 avahi packagage fails to uninstall; remove it manually with

rpm -e --noscripts avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7

-- 
Joel