yum update issues
Jack Howarth
howarth at bromo.med.uc.edu
Fri Jun 26 13:37:32 UTC 2009
Is there a workaround for the following? On a x86_64 Fedora 10
workstation with the updates-testing repo enabled, I am finding that
'yum update' periodically fails. These are of the form...
Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================================Install 2 Package(s)
Update 5 Package(s)
Remove 1 Package(s)
Total download size: 23 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/7): jack-audio-connection-kit-0.116.1-5.fc10.x86_64.rpm | 200 kB 00:00
(2/7): kernel-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64.rpm | 20 MB 00:34
(3/7): kmod-nvidia-180.51-1.fc10.8.x86_64.rpm | 25 kB 00:00
(4/7): kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64-180.51-1.fc10.8.x86_64.rpm | 2.6 MB 00:02
(5/7): openjpeg-libs-1.3-5.fc10.x86_64.rpm | 62 kB 00:00
(6/7): sudo-1.7.1-3.fc10.x86_64.rpm | 367 kB 00:00
(7/7): xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.903-7.fc10.x86_64.rpm | 182 kB 00:00
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Total 560 kB/s | 23 MB 00:42
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error:
package kernel-2.6.29.1-42.fc10.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64) is already installed
package kernel-2.6.29.2-52.fc10.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64) is already installed
package kernel-2.6.29.3-60.fc10.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64) is already installed
package kernel-2.6.29.4-75.fc10.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64) is already installed
package kernel-2.6.29.5-84.fc10.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64) is already installed
Error Summary
It appears that when a new kernel in the updates repo appears, yum tries to update to it
despite the fact that the update-testing repo contains a new series of kernels (2.6.27.2.72
vs 2.6.29.x). Isn't this a flaw in yum? Shouldn't it realize that the updates-testing repo's
kernel has provided a newer version and not attempt to install the older on from the updates
repo at all?
Jack
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