[Yum] Re: Yum update conflicts

[Christian Cryder]

Christian Cryder wrote:

Seth, I'm not sure if you saw my email from last night (below). Someone 
on the fedora list said I need to revert to yum 2.0.7 (since that's stable).

1. I need to know how to do that (since yum is currently broken, as per 
below, what's the manual process). Is there any way to easily rollback? 
If its written down somewhere, just point me at the docs...

2. Back to the original question about getting a conflict when doing 
"yum update" - what's the method to go about solving this (or do you 
still want me to ask that on the fedora list?)

Basically I'm seeking more info on how yum works so that I can actually 
understand how to troubleshoot problems I encounter (rather than just 
mindlessly typing commands)

Thanks much,
CHristian

> Christian Cryder wrote:
> 
>> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 17:27, Christian Cryder wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I am using Fedora Core2, kernel-2.6.8-1.521.
>>>
>>> Today I did a "yum check-update" and then a "yum update". I got the
>>> following error message:
>>>
>>>      conflict between xorg-x11-font-utils xorg-x11-base-fonts
>>>
>>> Can someone offer some indication of what I need to to do to resolve
>>> this? I did find an obscure reference to something about this (I think)
>>> here:
>>>
>>>      http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/fedorapeople/
>>>
>>> (Look down in the xorg-x11-6.7.99.903-5 section, comments by Mike Harris
>>> dated Aug 31, 2004).
>>>
>>> I guess what I'm asking for is more information on how to proceed when
>>> yum encounters a conflict.
>>
>>
>> you should  ask this on the fedora-devel-list - not on yum-lsit.
> 
> 
> Sorry about that. I'm new to both yum and linux and still in the process 
> of figuring out what to ask where. I think my followup question DOES 
> pertain to yum...
> 
>> yum --obsoletes update
>>
>> will fix it, though, using yum 2.1.3
> 
> 
> Ok, so I did "yum update yum" and got 2.1.3. Cool. Now, however, when I 
> run any yum command (eg. yum info yum) I get the following error:
> 
>   Setting up Repo:  base
>   repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>   Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base
>   failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to
>   try.
> 
> I'm not sure what to try next here. My yum.conf looks standard (to my 
> eyes):
> 
>   [main]
>   cachedir=/var/cache/yum
>   debuglevel=2
>   logfile=/var/log/yum.log
>   pkgpolicy=newest
>   distroverpkg=redhat-release
>   tolerant=1
>   exactarch=1
>   retries=20
> 
>   [base]
>   name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
>   baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core
>     /$releasever/$basearch/os/
> 
>   [updates-released]
>   name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
>   baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/
>     updates/$releasever/$basearch/
> 
>   #[updates-testing]
>   name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
>   baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/
>     updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/
> 
>   #[development]
>   name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
>   baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/
>     development/$basearch/
> 
> Is there some other file I need to configure somewhere?
> 
> I've tried searching the web for more info on this and I'm unfortunately 
> drawing a blank. Also, I don't find anything on --obsolete in the man 
> docs (where should I be looking to research this stuff???) What exactly 
> does --obsolete do?
> 
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Christian
> 
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> Christian Cryder
> Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
> Project Chair, BarracudaMVC - http://barracudamvc.org
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Christian

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Christian Cryder
Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
Project Chair, BarracudaMVC - http://barracudamvc.org
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"Coffee? I could quit anytime, just not today"