F9beta update takes forever

[John Summerfield]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 14:03 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>> seth vidal wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>>> The update that worked was helped by a preceding one that downloaded 
>>>>> everything and then muttered something about dependency problems 
>>>>> regarding some xine package and died.
>>>> More specifics would be helpful.
>>> Fair request, I was in a rush and didn't have the info before me. xine's 
>>> not likely relevant to the thread. It seems that the above actions 
>>> cleared this too.
>>>
>>>
>> Well just look at this!
>> ---> Package anaconda-runtime.x86_64 0:11.4.0.76-1.fc9 set to be updated
>> ---> Package totem-gstreamer.x86_64 0:2.23.2-2.fc9 set to be updated
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.10.1-1.lvn8.x86_64 from installed has 
>> depsolving problems
>>    --> Missing Dependency: xine-lib = 1.1.10.1 is needed by package 
>> xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.10.1-1.lvn8.x86_64 (installed)
>> Depsolve time: 67.050
>> Error: Missing Dependency: xine-lib = 1.1.10.1 is needed by package 
>> xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.10.1-1.lvn8.x86_64 (installed)
>>
>> real    2m9.731s
>> user    2m8.378s
>> sys     0m1.968s
>>
>> The commandline is this:
>> time (yes '' | yum --disablerepo=rawhide* upgrade --exclude=*.i386) 2>&1 
>> | tee /tmp/yum-log
>>
>> The change is the addition of "--exclude=*.i386."
> 
> 
> if you run:
> 
> yum --skip-broken ...
> 
> does it work?

Yes. I like it so well that I added skip_broken=1 to yum.conf.

Might I mention that skip_broken isn't mentioned in yum.conf(5)?

Thanks Seth.

It's just taken 6m51.780s to download and install 14 packages amounting 
to 32 Mbytes.

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Cheers
John

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