[Yum] Two yum versions at once?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Feb 15 21:42:13 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 16:35 -0500, Cliff Kent wrote:

> Today "yum update" on my FC1 test box gave me this result:
> 
> ...
> Resolving dependencies
> .conflict between ghostscript and foomatic
> 
> So, I was preparing a question about that.
> 
> But, when I did:
> # rpm -qa | grep yum
> yum-2.0.4-20031205
> yum-2.0.5-1.fd.fr
> 
> it raised another question... well ... how's that again?
> 
> A while back I _did_ download and manually install a yum daily to see if 
> it fixed "that day's" problem and it did IIRC.
> 
> But now I have an old daily build AND a newer version? (from freshrpms - 
> I peeked in /var/cache/yum)
> 
> I don't see a newer yum header in updates at all:
> [updates]
> name=Fedora Core 1 - Updates
> baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
> 
> So, what's up? And what have I missed? And what's the right thing to do 
> next?
> 
> I don't need this box updated in the next few days. Better to take time 
> and learn from this if possible.

how did you install the other yum?

they have conflicting files, it seems to me that you only could have
done this via --force.

-sv





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