On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 23:10 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > 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. --- what is PUP ? Craig
