yumming up down to for loop
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Sep 6 23:56:28 UTC 2004
> I used a number of exclusions and other tricks to do an update. All
> failed with various problems involving xorg-x11 stuff (fonts)
> And ended with errors.
> The for loop is a hack yes. Should not be necessary yes...
> But I got updated that way when other (more normal) attempts
> failed. I bailed myself out that way in the past too. Using yum and
> up2date. Seems like cutting down the scale helps either app do its
> job.
it's not the scale. The problems are still there, you're just seeing the
problems in specific packages.
> Somehow it involved 18 packages to update it since it involved a
> number of obsoletes etc.
>
> `yum --obsoletes xorg-x11-font-utils' worked as expected
umm 'yum --obsoletes somepkgname' shouldn't do ANYTHING. There's no
command in there.
yum [--options] command [arguments]
> Prior to updating 99% of what needed it with my for loop
> `yum --obsoletes update'
> would fail. Even with various excludes I've lost track of now.
I'd like to remind everyone the PURPOSE of a test release is to get
tests and bugs.
If you encounter a problem like this it is either:
- a packaging bug
- a bug in yum
- a bug in rpm
If you don't file them we can't find them.
-sv
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