Up2date not being maintained any longer?

[Jim Cornette]

seth vidal wrote:
>>For yum, it would be nice if you could yum -y update and get the 
>>updates. The problem is that it had over 100 rpms that it could 
>>successfully update if it would do its best. Up2date does the same 
>>thing, so not really an up2date vs. yum issue. With a customized and 
>>manually edited script, I could get yum to do what I wanted by using the 
>>information related to what up2date was trying to install.
> 
> 
> I keep suggesting you use the yum shell and you don't seem to have tried
> it.
> 
> Try this, please:
> 
> yum shell
> 
>>update
>>transaction solve
> 
>   <some error occurs here>
> 
>>exclude package-that-causes-error
>>update
>>transaction solve
> 
>   <no errors>
> 
>>run
>>quit
> 
> 
> ta da!
> 
> -sv

I tried the shell and it did not show any conflicting programs. It 
installed all of the packages that were held up because of a multimedia 
program using an older flac library conflicted with the newer version.

The programs still works but I do not have any flac formatted files to 
see if they error. The DVDs still work.

Stumbling around in the shell, I got by with this transaction.

Thanks Seth. This should be a useful feature when it is further 
developed. The exclude package-that-causes-error below was added to a 
single > prompt that was returned. I figure that you would exclude k3b 
instead of the literal in your posting. Of coarse, I had to try the 
literal at the > prompt.

Jim


yum shell
Setting up Yum Shell
 > transaction solve
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
--> Running transaction check
 > exclude package-that-causes-error

     commands:  clean, config, exit, groupinfo, groupinstall, grouplist,
                groupremove, groupupdate, info, install, list,
                localinstall, makecache, provides, quit, remove,
                repo, run, search, transaction, update

 > transaction

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
 > transaction update

     transaction arg
       list: lists the contents of the transaction
       reset: reset (zero-out) the transaction
       solve: run the dependency solver on the transaction
       run: run the transaction

 > transaction list

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
 > transaction solve
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
--> Running transaction check
 > run
 > transaction solve
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
--> Running transaction check
 > transaction

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
 > update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
development               100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 955 kB    00:22
developmen: ################################################## 3491/3491
Added 3491 new packages, deleted 0 old in 61.94 seconds
 > run

=============================================================================
  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
  cryptsetup-luks         i386       1.0-1            development 
421 k
      replacing  cryptsetup.i386 0.1-4

Updating:
  flac                    i386       1.1.2-24         development 
291 k
  flac-devel              i386       1.1.2-24         development 
734 k
  gstreamer-plugins       i386       0.8.8-5          development 
1.4 M
  gstreamer-plugins-deve  i386       0.8.8-5          development 
  35 k
  k3b                     i386       0.11.23-2        development 
5.8 M
  kdemultimedia           i386       6:3.4.0-2        development 
6.8 M
  kdemultimedia-devel     i386       6:3.4.0-2        development 
143 k
  libmusicbrainz          i386       2.1.1-1          development 
195 k
  sound-juicer            i386       2.10.1-1         development 
346 k
  vorbis-tools            i386       1:1.0.1-6        development 
189 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update      10 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 16 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
<snip> transaction test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
<snip> installing
   Removing  : cryptsetup                   ####################### [20/22]
   Cleanup   : libmusicbrainz               ####################### [21/22]
   Cleanup   : flac-devel                   ####################### [22/22]

Installed: cryptsetup-luks.i386 0:1.0-1
Updated: flac.i386 0:1.1.2-24 flac-devel.i386 0:1.1.2-24 
gstreamer-plugins.i386 0:0.8.8-5 gstreamer-plugins-devel.i386 0:0.8.8-5 
k3b.i386 0:0.11.23-2 kdemultimedia.i386 6:3.4.0-2 
kdemultimedia-devel.i386 6:3.4.0-2 libmusicbrainz.i386 0:2.1.1-1 
sound-juicer.i386 0:2.10.1-1 vorbis-tools.i386 1:1.0.1-6
Replaced: cryptsetup.i386 0:0.1-4
Finished Transaction
 > quit
Leaving Shell

<running yum again for test>

yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
development               100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 955 kB    00:03
developmen: ################################################## 3491/3491
Added 6 new packages, deleted 6 old in 17.10 seconds
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion