On Sunday June 11 2006 22:24, Claude Jones wrote: > Yum > is still not working quite right. It just supposedly updated bind and the > kernel and about four other packages, and when it was finished, I came up > with the same exact packages needing to be updated on the next try... I seem to have prevailed. Actually, I must give credit where it's due - the final clean-up was carried out by PUP. I'd been using Yumex, but had the problem described just above. PUP installed the kernel and other packages, and as bonus, finally updated BIND, which had been in dependency limbo for about 2-3 weeks. Yumex would detect a new Bind but always fail on install for dependencies. PUP is not my favorite package tool, but I must say that this is the second time it's resolved a problem like this. In any event, all seems to be well, now, and as far as I can tell, all packages are working... This afternoon, I had tried PUP, and it found a bunch of packages needing updating (this was much earlier in the repair process), and it went into a never-ending download - it hung for 2-3 hours in the download process; no error messages, and occasional indications of progress - I finally cancelled out. Yumex was able to carry out the same updates, with the above mentioned issues, successfully. Then, using PUP again, I was able to get the remaining packages updated. I'm not quite sure how to document all this, or where I'd start with bugzilla so I probably won't. Hope some of this is useful to someone. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
