[Yum] conflict between ghostscript and foomatic

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Feb 18 04:45:30 UTC 2004


> 
> yum.log says:
> ...
> 02/13/04 16:53:51 Updated: ghostscript 7.07-15.1.i386
> ...
> 02/13/04 16:53:51 Updated: foomatic 3.0.0-21.3.i386
> ...
> 
> 02/13/04 was the most recent yum update session.
> 
> 
> rpm -qa | grep ghostscript shows:
> ghostscript-7.07-11
> 
> 
> rpm -qa | grep foomatic shows:
> foomatic-3.0.0-9
> foomatic-3.0.0-21.3
> 
> 
> I think I can fix this in a few minutes. But, I do wonder how it got 
> this way.
> 
> There was at least one yum session that didn't finish because of a 
> connectivity problem, but otherwise this box has behaved just like the 
> ones without this problem.
> 
> And for the record, according to /root/.bash_history I have never used 
> rpm --force on this box.

yum didn't finish the transaction? Did it get to the first part of the
upgrade but not the second part? The second part is where the old
package is removed.
-sv





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