[Yum] conflict between ghostscript and foomatic

Cliff Kent cliff at villagevisions.com
Wed Feb 18 18:17:19 UTC 2004


 >> yum didn't finish the transaction? <<

Yum _appeared_ to finish as usual. But did not.

When I got to cleaning up, rpm -e would remove the "older versions". For 
example:

# rpm -qa | grep foomatic
foomatic-3.0.0-9
foomatic-3.0.0-21.3
# rpm -e foomatic-3.0.0-9
# rpm -qa | grep foomatic
foomatic-3.0.0-21.3

That makes it look like that's fixed.

In the other half of the error, although yum.log said:
02/13/04 16:53:51 Updated: ghostscript 7.07-15.1.i386

# rpm -qa | grep ghostscript
ghostscript-7.07-11

Indicated that the update was not done.

When I looked in /var/cache/yum/updates/packages I found 
ghostscript-7.07-15.1.i386.rpm and installed it with:

# rpm -Uvh ghostscript-7.07-15.1.i386.rpm

After that, yum update would work, but I still had something like 15 
other instances of the new and old versions both being returned by
rpm -qa | grep xxx.

I fixed those in the same way as the foomatic-3.0.0-9 example above.

I hope that's clear. I'm not sure I've described it wall.

Cliff Kent




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