FC8 Yum update error

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 12:26 +0000, Damian Brasher wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Does anyone know of this Werewolf yum update conflict? I picked this up
> Friday afternoon:
> 
> Total download size: 459 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> 
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /etc/avahi/avahi-autoipd.action from install of
> avahi-autoipd-0.6.21-8.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from package
> avahi-0.6.16-4.fc6.i386
>   file /usr/sbin/avahi-autoipd from install of
> avahi-autoipd-0.6.21-8.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from package
> avahi-0.6.16-4.fc6.i386
>   file /usr/share/man/man8/avahi-autoipd.8.gz from install of
> avahi-autoipd-0.6.21-8.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from package
> avahi-0.6.16-4.fc6.i386
> 
> Regards Damian
> 
> -- 
> http://www.diap.org.uk - distributed backup volume management system.
> 

The older avahi had a scriptlet problem which kept it from being removed
properly. Run this:

rpm -e --noscripts avahi-0.6.16-4.fc6.i386

and, yes, f8 is EOL'd - upgrade to f9 or f10 when you get a chance.

-sv