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

[Andrew Farris]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Andrew Farris wrote:
> 
>> David G. Mackay wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 17:57 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>>> How should I proceed to apply the updates?
>>>> Did anybody else also encounter the above problems?
>>> I got the same errors.  I just went ahead and ran rpm -Uvh --force hal*
>>> smbios-utils* libsmbios* against the rpms
>>> in /var/cache/yum/development/packages.  It seems to have survived it so
>>> far.
>>>
>>> Dave
>> Yep, you'll just have two packages that overlap now, with libsmbios-bin no
>> longer present in the repo (I don't know if thats temporary, or intentional,
>> but its not there).
> 
> so, is the above considered the proper (albeit temporary) solution to
> this current package problem?  as, not surprisingly, i'm in the same
> situation.

Well, actually that works if you've got the packages downloaded already in 
cache, but you keep a package on the system that is not in the repo.
Do either 1) or 2).

1) rpm -e --nodeps libsmbios-bin; yum install smbios-utils libsmbios

2) cd /var/cache/yum/dev*t/packages
    rpm -Uvh --force hal* smbios-utils* libsmbios*

In case 2 you'll end up keeping libsmbios-bin.. don't know if that'll hurt you 
next update.  If you go case 1 then (assuming libsmbios-bin does not return to 
the repo) you'll be fine and consistent with the repo today.

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