[Yum] Re: more chickens - but which egg?

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 07:08:33PM -0700, Karsten Jeppesen wrote:
> Hello Seth,
> 
> A thing I have a work around for may be of interest to you anyway.
> 
> I have several projects I need fast installs for. I have a number of 
> work machines and nothing lasting can be present on them.
> So I start from scratch and install minimum FC3 on the PCs and minimum 
> YDL on the briQs (they are PPC)
> 
> And then I have a number of repositories which provides the remaining 
> stuff. Works great.
> BUT
> I realized that one of the reasons I do that is a feature that is 
> missing in yum. Depending of course upon the assumption that yum is 
> supposed to be of maximum adaptability.
> 
> The example project is myth-tv using the repository at atrpms.
> 
> Now if you install minimum FC3 and set up yum for FC3 updates and the 
> atrpms repository and issue an update command, then it will fail.
> The reason for that is that atrpms contains multiple " wild" updates to 
> packages which will be targeted for updating.
> But it can not be resolved.

No, that's not the reason. ATrpms triggered some bugs in yum, there
are good outlines in bugzilla at redhat/yum/atrpms and a lengthy post
at fedora-devel. Some of these bug even triggered on some Red Hat
updates. The good news is that most of the bugs, if not all have been
resolved in latest yum versions.

So your best way forward is to install your bare yum, issue an update
for yum only and then go forward with updating the system and adding
more packages through yum.

> I think (meaning - how would I know) it is caused by that yum sees a 
> package selected for update and then finds a never package both in the 
> redhat and the atrpms repository. The atrpms package is a newer version 
> but can not be resolved because it requires other newer packages not 
> available anywhere in these repositories. But the redhat repository 
> package is still newer than the currently installed and would satisfy 
> the update requirements.
> 
> So it is like an update-deep where you consider multiple newer packages 
> - not just the newest one.
> 
> My work around is of course to disable the atrpms - do the update - 
> enable the atrpms - install the projects - move the packages to my 
> local repositories and forget about it until the next time around when 
> I do a deep update.
> 
> 
> Karsten
> 
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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