yum: doing its part to keep the editor grumpy

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> So...I'm trying to get my system up to current rawhide so that I'm in a
> proper position to whine about printing being broken...again...  In the
> process, though, I've discovered a new bit of fun behavior:
>
> # yum update
>  < ... package information as usual ...>
> Transaction Summary
> =======================================================================================
> Install      1 Package(s)         
> Update      13 Package(s)         
> Remove       0 Package(s)         
>
> Total size: 2.1 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> ================================== Entering rpm code ==================================
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
>
>
>
> #
>
> In other words, it just silently fails.  If I go into the package cache
> and install packages by hand, I eventually run into something like this:
>
> # rpm -ivh lame-libs-3.98.2-2.fc10.x86_64.rpm 
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> 	file /usr/lib64/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 from install of lame-libs-3.98.2-2.fc10.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libmp3lame0-3.97-16.fc8_93.x86_64
>
> So my *real* problem is that the switch to rpmfusion isn't playing well
> with older packages from other repositories of ill repute.  Outside
> repositories and rawhide have always been a fun combination, but I
> can't really blame anybody but myself for attempting to do that.  I know
> how to clean up this kind of mess.
>
> But it *would* be nice if yum would *tell* me why things are failing...
>
> jon
>
>   
You should really wait until the whole python things have been sorted out
in Fedora before enable rpmfusion

Run yum -d7 update should show a bit more what's going on

JBG
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