Problem with today's "yum update"
Mike Klinke
lsomike at futzin.com
Sat Sep 4 14:59:56 UTC 2004
On Saturday 04 September 2004 09:40, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> There first thing you saw with the traceback was a real error in
> yum 2.1.2, which yum 2.1.3 should fix.
This is what trying to say, but, of course, why say it with only a
few words when a whole saga can be written ....
>
> The conflict error you see is a REAL packaging conflict between
> the old version of xorg you had installed and the new version of
> xorg in rawhide. Its a packaging conflict because the items in
> the xorg packages have been restructured in the new rawhide
> version.
>
> instead of excluding that xorg package, try yum --obsoletes
> update the new xorg packages uses the rpm concept of "obsoleting"
> to handle the problem of restructuring of package payloads.
>
> -jef
Thanks for the clue on "--obsoletes". I hadn't read any discussion
of the different "obsoleting" method for xorg-x11 packages. How did
you become aware of this?
Regards, Mike Klinke
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