fixing yum

[Roger Grosswiler]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:55:25 -0500, Claude Jones 
> 
>>If I do yum -y update, after some time, it runs a list of packages
>>to be updated, followed by a series of messages:
> 
> 
> First of all.. i would strongly encourage you NOT to use -y when
> updating from the development tree.  As a tester, its not necessarily
> in your best interests to consume all updates without review.  You can
> save yourself a lot of troubleshooting heartache if you take time to
> at least review updates before they occur, it can really help you
> narrow down  any problems which result from a rawhide update package,
> especially if you don't have a broad knowledge of the underlying
> subsystems.  Though i would caution you to be even more cautious, and
> to do targeted updates of specific packages or small groups of
> packages instead of all development tree updates with one step,
> regardless of your tool of choice.
> 
> 
>> ---> Processing Dependency: [name of package]
>>Followed by:
>>Error: Missing Dependency: [name of package}
>>
>>There are about fifteen of those. Then I just revert to the
>>prompt.
> 
> 
> There has been significant discussion of these sorts of problems on
> this list for over a week now. Please review the recent list archive
> messages since test1 release.  This is not a yum problem.. this is a
> problem with the development tree. The packages in the development
> tree are not always self-consistent.  Yum attempts to resolve
> dependancies, but if the development tree is not fully
> self-consistent, the dependancies are unresolvable and hence the error
> message.  These are packaging errors that the Core package maintainers
> need to fix by providing associated package updates to make the tree
> self-consistent.
> 
> For example libwnck in the development tree no longer provides libwnck-1.so.4
> libwnck-2.10.0-1.i386.rpm now  provides libwnck-1.so.16
> 
> Many packages in the development tree stilll require libwnck-1.so.4,
> for example
> gnome-python2-libwnck-2.9.3-1.i386.rpm requires libwnck-1.so.4
> 
> Yum has the ability to exclude packages from the update calculation,
> the specific --exclude options needed from day to day seems to be a
> popular topic of discussion among some list members.
> 
> -jef
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> This situation happens frequently with the development tree, another
> reason why yum -y isn't a particularly great idea to use when using
> the development tree.
> 
btw. if you want to be informed about updates available, i use 'yum 
check-update' before if update my system...

Roger