New key: updating yum/yum-utils depsolving problem

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 17:41:37 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 10:27 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 17:14 +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 12:46 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > > Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 09:54 +0000, Mike wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >> Easy - just open a terminal and do
> > > >> yum update --exclude yum --exclude yum-utils
> > > >>
> > > >> Then it will do everything except those two - and later when the
> > > >> dependencies are fixed you can include them in the next update.
> > > >>
> > > > 
> > > > +1
> > > > or yum --skip-broken update
> > > > did it here.
> > > > 
> > > That skips anything else which may be broken. I don't know if that's 
> > > good or bad in this particular case.
> > 
> > Not sure if I hit this thread earlier, so apologies if this is a
> > duplicate message.  Just want to make sure people have seen this:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_new_signing_key#Known_Issues 
> ----
> that leaves me with PackageKit problem...
> 
> # yum update --exclude=yum\*
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile                   
>  * livna: mirrors.tummy.com                                  
>  * fedora: distro.ibiblio.org                                
>  * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com                 
>  * updates-newkey: download.fedora.redhat.com                
>  * updates: download.fedora.redhat.com                       
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list                    
> Finished                                                     
> Setting up Update Process                                    
> Resolving Dependencies                                       
> --> Running transaction check                                
>    ...snip...
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> PackageKit-0.2.4-6.fc9.i386 from updates-newkey has depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: yum-packagekit = 0.2.4-6.fc9 is needed by
> package PackageKit-0.2.4-6.fc9.i386 (updates-newkey)
> Error: Missing Dependency: yum-packagekit = 0.2.4-6.fc9 is needed by
> package PackageKit-0.2.4-6.fc9.i386 (updates-newkey)

Fixed the page, which should reflect the right command now:

su -c 'yum update --exclude yum --exclude yum-utils'

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