yum update fails - how to fix

Fri May 18 13:02:31 UTC 2007

On Fri, 18 May 2007 05:45:32 -0700 (PDT), Antonio Olivares wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:31:47 AM
> Subject: Re: yum update fails - how to fix
> 
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> > Transaction Check Error:
> >   file /usr/share/config/kdm conflicts between
> > attempted installs of kdebase-3.5.6-10.fc7 and
> > kde-settings-kdm-3.5-23.fc7
> 
> wait for kdebase-3.5.6-11+
> See also:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/240517
> 
> -- Rex
> 

> I tried to install updates to another machine and the same happened.

Of course. What else did you expect? In one package the file is a symlink,
in the other it is a directory. That is the conflict.