Anoter update feasko

[Karl Larsen]

David Boles wrote:
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> Craig White wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 17:54 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
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>>>>> I tried to get this up and got this:
>>>>>
>>>>> [root at k5di ~]# yum update
>>>>>           
>>> **** removed for space and not needed **** 
>>>       
>>>>> --> Processing Dependency:
>>>>> /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers for 
>>>>> package: java-1.5.0-gcj
>>>>> --> Processing Dependency:
>>>>> /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers for 
>>>>> package: java-1.5.0-gcj
>>>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>>> Error: Missing Dependency:
>>>>> /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers is needed 
>>>>> by package java-1.5.0-gcj
>>>>> [root at k5di ~]#
>>>>>
>>>>> The update for f8 is broken!
>>>>>
>>>>> Karl
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=845453&postcount=1
>>>
>>> for the "fc7" do a 
>>> # yum list installed | grep fc7
>>>
>>> and hopefully someone comes through and confirms
>>> whether yum utils is the package that you need to
>>> remove the fc7 files
>>>
>>> http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumUtils
>>>
>>>       
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>> actually, I will confirm quite the opposite...
>>
>> that on my local copy of F8 (Everything) that there are quite a few
>> items that have fc7 in the filename so that is really poor advice
>> (removing packages based upon file name) (estimated at 50+ and no
>> estimate on quantity in updates)
>>
>> double checking packages via yum-utils 'package-cleanup' is not
>> necessarily a bad idea but you have to know which repositories you have
>> configured (and why) and be really up to date for it to provide accurate
>> information.
>>
>> feel free to work with OP on these issues but it would seem akin to hara
>> kiri by butter knife
>>     
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> It was said that packages that did not need to be rebuilt would not be
> rebuilt to save time for more important things. Look in your FC7 install
> and you will see both FC6 and FC7 packages. Look in your FC8 install and
> you will see FC6, FC7, and FC8 packages. There are packages with FC6,
> FC7, FC8, and FC9 in their name in Rawhide. *If* there was an update,
> for whatever release FC7, or FC8 it would be available.
>
> It gets tiresome reading the 'panic attacks' does it not?
>
> - --
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>   David
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    You explain the f7 problem Dave. The update problem was the new 
Jpackage.repo package. It needs some study :-)



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