Yum error with "runuser" not found

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 15:06, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> When she is good,  she is very, very good
> But when she is bad, she is awful.
> 
> That is what I feel about yum.
> If it works it is great.
> But if it doesn't work there usually seems to be nothing you can do about it,
> eg the current message
> 
> =======================================
> Restarting Dependency Process with new changes
> Error: missing dep: /bin/runuser for pkg initscripts
> =======================================
> 
> What is one meant to do when you get this error message?
> 
> Could one remove the initscripts header file?
> Is there any way to ask yum just to forget about initscripts,
> and install whatever it can install?

You could read the man page and learn about the --exclude option for the
command line.


> Why does it bomb out when it cannot install one package?

b/c a portion of the transaction has failed, thus the transaction has
failed.



> Could the error messages put out by yum not be a little more helpful,
> and suggest what action the user might take?

possibly.

-sv