the current state of trying to "yum update"

[John Summerfield]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> ??? wrote:
>>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>>   not sure if anyone will find the following informative, but i'll
>> <I'm sure we've all seen enough of this>
>>
>>>> There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running
>>>> yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
>>>> --> Running transaction check
>>>> ---> Package gnome-games-help.noarch 1:2.25.92-1.fc11 set to be erased
>>>> ---> Package gnome-games-help.i386 1:2.25.5-1.fc11 set to be erased
>> It's interesting one's noarch and the other is not.
> 
> that funny "duplication" existed for a few other packages.  i removed
> them manually, then tried the update again and that's when things
> melted down entirely.  that's when i gave up and just did a
> re-install.
> 
> i will *not* be doing an update, apart from the rpm/yum-related
> packages.

Well, you could always backup the system first. Or test in a VM, if you 
can get a VM working well enough.

I don't mind encouraging others to further adventures.



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