improve "Protected multilib versions" error message

Marcin Dulak marcin.dulak at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 12:44:13 UTC 2014


Hi,

i have a comment about https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840543
My feeling is that the yum message should be improved.
There are many questions from confused users about "what to do now?", e.g.:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/42524/yum-update-multilib-version-problems-found-for-package-keyutils-libs/

I think it would be better to provide users with some few basic yum 
diagnostic commands first.
The last step suggested by the error message: yum check + google for how 
to handle yum duplicates was needed to solve the problem
- this simply does not feel right. Users may break the system if the 
google wrong answers.

Every yum error should provide such a basic guide - yum itself should 
teach users how to use it.

Best regards,

Marcin



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