In article <20070222000106.77e0cb54@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alan <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> * failure to maintain key repositories in a sane, consistent state >> from which upgrades might actually be possible. >That really doesn't seem to be a genuine gripe. There are occasional >problems with mirrors being out of sync but what Mr Raymond did appears >to be to discover rpm wasn't letting him do an update and decide to >remove some files by hand, at which point he discovered rpm was right. There have many *many* times when yum update has failed for me. Today was one such event (and others have mentioned on this list). Many of the failure appear to be due to the dual arch packages we get on x86_64. -- http://www.spinics.net/lists/