Livna Dependency problem xine-lib-extras-nonfree

[Michael C]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
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>> Thanks Kevin,
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>> I'd been wondering why clearing the metadata cache wasn't sufficient to
>> re-enable updates. If it's of any use to anyone else who updated their
>> Livna packages before the deluge of Fedora updates, I ran the following;
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>> yum remove xine-lib-extras-nonfree
>> yum clean all
>> yum update
>> yum install xine-lib-extras-nonfree
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>> Regards,
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>> Michael
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> I could not install xine-lib-extras-nonfree earlier as I assume you could not.
> But today it worked without any yum clean being necessary. I assume it
> was just a mirror problem.
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Well aside from the question of whether it was necessary to clean the
cache (I took my cue from Nataraj's post in the "When the floodgates
open ..." thread) I gathered the problem that some were experiencing
didn't purely and simply come down to transitory synch issues:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-September/msg01124.html