cannot update to latest, how should I proceed to apply updates

[Antonio Olivares]

--- "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at hi.is> wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, José Matos wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 05:15:42 Michal
> Jaegermann wrote:
> >>     
> >>> At least two options.  One is to wait for fixed
> packages.  Bugzilla
> >>> says already that they are coming.  If you are
> impatient then
> >>> another option is to retrieve rpm for
> smbios-utils and
> >>>    
> >>>     rpm -Uvh --replacefiles smbios-utils*.rpm
> >>>
> >>> Upcoming updates should clean-up a resulting
> mess (or do that
> >>> yourself).
> >>>       
> >> I am surprised no one suggested this before. :-)
> >>
> >> # yum shell --skip-broken
> >>     
> >>> update
> >>> remove libsmbios-bin
> >>> run
> >>>       
> >>  I did and it works. :-)
> >>     
> >
> > when i try that yum command, i get:
> >
> >   Command line error: no such option:
> --skip-broken
> >
> > did you have to install a yum plugin first?
> >   
> Yes you need to install yum-skip-broken
> 
> Best regards
> 	Johann B.
> 
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Shouldn't it already be integrated into yum?
No need to install.  If I am wrong, please correct me.

Thanks,

Antonio 


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