update to F11 with yum

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Thu Jun 4 16:14:12 UTC 2009


On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Alan Evans wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>> Alan Evans wrote:
>>> I have a small number of 32-bit packages on my desktop. If I try to
>>> remove, for example, glibc.i686, then it tries to take
>>> basesystem.noarch with it as a dependency!
>>
>> You must be missing some x86_64 package(s) then.
>
> Actually, not that either. A closer examination of yum output reveals:
>
>    removing basesystem-10.0-1.noarch. It is not required by anything else.
>
> This is being tagged for removal by the remove-with-leaves plugin. So
> I'm guessing that something in the dependency resolution stage calls
> out for needing basesystem, but nothing else on my system technically
> requires it. Should I consider that a bug?

Have you got two basesystem packages installed? The F11 basesystem package 
is basesystem-10.0-2.noarch.rpm.

 	Michael Young




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