RPM conflict upgrading from F7 -> F8 via yum
Robin Bowes
robin-lists at robinbowes.com
Fri Sep 7 16:05:04 UTC 2007
Robin Bowes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm playing with some new hardware - x86_64.
>
> I wanted to install Fedora 8 Test 1 on it but the installer barfs during
> the installation process. So, I've installed Fedora 7 and am upgrading
> to the rawhide code.
>
> I've done this by:
>
> 1. Enabling the development repo in fedora-development.repo
> 2. Upgrading fedora-release (now have 7.91-1 installed)
> 3. Running "yum upgrade"
>
>
> This downloads about 1GB of packages, but the transaction test fails with:
>
> Transaction Check Error:
> file /etc/dbus-1/session.conf from install of dbus-1.1.2-4.fc8
> conflicts with file from package dbus-1.0.2-4.fc7
> file /etc/dbus-1/system.conf from install of dbus-1.1.2-4.fc8
> conflicts with file from package dbus-1.0.2-4.fc7
> file /etc/rc.d/init.d/messagebus from install of dbus-1.1.2-4.fc8
> conflicts with file from package dbus-1.0.2-4.fc7
> file /usr/share/man/man1/dbus-daemon.1.gz from install of
> dbus-1.1.2-4.fc8 conflicts with file from package dbus-1.0.2-4.fc7
> file /lib/libdbus-1.so.3 from install of dbus-libs-1.1.2-4.fc8
> conflicts with file from package dbus-1.0.2-4.fc7
>
> Any ideas how I can overcome this?
Answering my own question:
This seems to work:
rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches dbus
yum upgrade
R.
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