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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Andrew Farris wrote:

> 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.

i'd be tempted to go with 1), since it would seem to be more
consistent with the long-term view.  also, i checked that bugzilla
entry and, while it has "i386" stamped all over it, i'm hoping that
any solution also includes the x86-64 platform, which is what i'm
using here.  i'm just assuming no one would miss that the fix should
apply everywhere. :-)

rday
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