Yet More Yum Woe
Beartooth
Beartooth at swva.net
Wed Dec 31 22:08:56 UTC 2008
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:03:20 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:08:00 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth wrote:
[...]
> What do you get if you run
>
> rpm --query --whatprovides 'mono(gtk-sharp)'
>
> and
>
> repoquery --whatprovides 'mono(gtk-sharp)'
>
> ?
The first tells me an rpm for gtk-sharp; the second just gives my
root prompt back.
>
> In case you don't have repoquery yet, you can find it in the "yum-utils"
> package.
I tried "yum install yum-utils" -- it says I have it, and it's
the latest.
> There has been a gtk-shark2 update recently, and it certainly provides
> these four things which are complained about.
>
> "sysinfo" is not found in the Fedora package collection, however. I
> wonder whether that might be of importance. If you "rpm -e sysinfo" it
> and then try yum update again, any change?
>
>> Complete!
>> (1, [u'Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report'])
>>
>> I haven't the faintest idea what that means; so I google the
>> error line.
>>
>> It sends me to a wad of sites on Fedora-forum (which I never have
>> been able to use; but I see there are discussions back at least to
>> 2007).
>>
>> So I go to that yum site, and it wants me to register; I try.
>>
>> Three different browsers tell me its certificate is no good,
>> and
>> urge me strongly not to go there.
>
> Still you could choose to go there (and add an exception for the
> certificate). ;)
I tried it, and the warnings got stronger; one (Galeon or
Epiphany) assured me that no honest X,Y, or Z (which seemed to cover 99
44/100% of the waterfront among them) would ever ask me to do that.
That's when I quit and asked here instead. *Can* someone vouch for
yum.baseurl.org -- including that nobody could be spoofing it??
I'd've done it if it'd been a site I know; but it isn't.
[....]
>> Transaction Summary
>>
================================================================================
>> Install 0 Package(s)
>> Update 0 Package(s)
>> Remove 18 Package(s)
>>
>> Some of that looks very serious; I don't want to futz with
>> things
>> named sysinfo nor gnome-desktop-*. (I might, but I once did try some
>> such thing, long ago, and it removed yum! I had one devil of a time
>> with that ...)
Now, after Ron Siven's assurance here, I have removed "sysinfo"
-- and everything seems fine. Some sort of orphan from an old install,
maybe ....
> If it prints a list of what packages it will remove, it won't silently
> remove itself.
Yes; many a time have I taken advantage of that.
> What makes "yum remove ..." dangerous is that other dependency chains
> are much longer and would lead to removing many more packages. Paying
> close attention to the printed list and the y/n safety check is very
> important.
Yes!!
Many many thanks!
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
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