Yum update...only one at a time?
Mike Loiterman
mike at ascendency.net
Thu Sep 30 06:32:11 UTC 2004
Michal Jaegermann <mailto:michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:45:43AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 23:45 -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote:
>>> I'm doing yum update, but its only doing one package at a
>>> time...any idea why?
>>>
>>> I've done a yum clean all and I'm using version 2.1.4
>>
>> What do you mean one package at a time?
>
> It seems to me that something went haywire with a dependency
> resolution and not really in yum but somewhere in rpm libraries.
> An attempt to use directly 'rpm -Fvh ...' with a bunch of packages
> from the current updates ends up with:
>
> error: Failed dependencies:
> linc >= 0.1.6 is needed by (installed) pyorbit-2.0.0-3.1
> linc = 1.0.3 is needed by (installed) linc-devel-1.0.3-6
>
> while 'rpm -q linc' responds with 'linc-1.0.3-6' and
> 'rpm -q linc-devel' with 'linc-devel-1.0.3-6'. This appears to trip
> yum.
>
> It seems that the real culprit is ORBit2, though, but why it
> triggers this problem is far from clear to me. Still, when other
> packages are updated then ORBit2, and ORBit2-devel, can be updated as
> well but only then.
>
> This is probably a bugzilla material but against what?
>
> Michal
So I guess we should wait it out? But how can we upgrade when yum is
trashed?
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