Jonathan Berry wrote:
On 12/23/05, M. Lewis <cajun@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks very much for the detailed step-by-step Ralf. Very much appreciated.
As soon as I finish updating the other 158 packages that Yum decided not
to install due to this silliness, I will try this. Personally I find it
quite irritating to have to install 158 packages, one-by-one because of
one or two dependencies that could not be resolved.
Thanks again !
Mike
Hi Mike,
I don't know why no one has told you this before, but yum has an
option --exclude that can be used in this situation. Check out "man
yum" for more info. I'm not sure which package exactly you are stuck
on, but it seems like it is kernel-module-nvidia. Try this and see
what happens:
yum --exclude=kernel-module-nvidia\* update
If it complains that it cannot update other packages, just add them as
other excludes until it works. Should be easier than updating
package-by-package.
I agree with others in this thread, I do not see why yum cannot figure
out which packages it *can* update without conflicts (that is, with
code written to do that). Is it really that hard a problem to solve?
I'm sure it could get complex, but it seems like it should be able to
figure out at least simple cases like this. If a package cannot be
updated because of dependencies, try again with that package set not
to update. Repeat until it succeeds. Would this really be that hard?
Maybe I need to learn Python...
Merry Christmas to all!
Jonathan
Thanks Jonathan. I have tried the --exclude before. Perhaps I didn't try
that enough though.
Like you, it sure seems to me the yum developers should look into
solving this. It would certainly make life much easier.
I was about to try to figure out what yum was written in. Since you say
it is Python, I won't bother. I don't know Python either.
Merry Christmas to you as well.
Thanks,
Mike
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