On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 20:07 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 05 April 2009 17:15, Craig White wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 17:10 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > First I must say that the F10 freezup, was not F10's fault, but a > > > continuing problem I have with my Asus M2N-X Plus mobo, as it happens > > > with other distros. > > > > > > Back to the plot. > > > > > > While the updates on F10 were installing, the machine decided to freeze. > > > No keyboard, no mouse, no nothing, except a static image on KDE, like a > > > screenshot. I had no alternative, but to press the reboot button. > > > > > > When I've had this happen on Debian installs, I run apt-get dist-upgrade, > > > and apt-get complains, telling me to run, dpkg-reconfigure -a. This fixes > > > the problem with packages that were partially installed when the machine > > > froze up, then running apt-get dist-upgrade again, the remaining packages > > > are installed. > > > > > > When F10 rebooted, I ran apt-get dist-upgrade (I use apt on Fedora), but > > > apt-get complained about dependency problems due to duplicate packages on > > > the system. > > > > > > Apt-get gave the following errors. > > > E: Transaction set check failed > > > E: Handler silently failed > > > > > > I tried various suggestions from apt-get, like, apt-get --fix-broken > > > install, with no success. > > > > > > After a serious session of rpm -e on the various packages that had > > > duplicates, some 3hrs later, I had reduced the list of problem packages > > > to zero, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade again, which now continued with > > > installing the remaining packages. > > > > > > The question is, is there some command I could have used on Fedora, > > > similar to the Debian, dpkg-reconfigure -a, which is able to resolve > > > problems with partially installed packages, when you get a power out, or > > > in my case, the machine decides to freeze up, while installing the > > > updates. > > > > > > I had a good look in the man page for rpm, but couldn't see anything > > > there that might help, but there may be other commands not in the man > > > page of course. > > > > > > As usual, thanks for any suggestions. > > > > ---- > > yum install yum-tools > > > > package-cleanup --help > > > > Craig > > Hi Craig. > > As you see from the above, I'm using apt on Fedora. That said though, I will > install the package you suggest. > > Now I'm on dialup, and the problem I had where the machine froze up, was after > downloading over 540MB of packages using apt-get. Last time I updated was > 20090315, and the latest, where I had the problem 20090404. > > The difference between apt, and yum, is where they put the downloaded > packages. Apt puts them in /var/cache/apt/archives. Packages from all the > repos are placed here. Yum splits the repos up, and puts the packages for the > different repos in separate directories. So for example the yum updates are > in /var/cache/yum/updates/packages. > > I've tried the GUI way of moving the packages from apt to yum, but means > renaming yum directories temporarily, so as to be able to copy and paste > from /var/cache/apt/archives to /var/cache/yum/updates/packages (packages > temporarily renamed to archives) > > There has to be an easier way than that on the CLI. > > How do I copy the files in /var/cache/apt/archives > to /var/cache/yum/updates/packages? > > Nigel. > > Sorry, this has been a pain in the backside for the last 2 days. ---- I am not sure why you are wanting to move packages from apt to yum locations but I suppose you have a reason for this. My response was merely an answer to your question about cleaning up after an aborted install and really has little to do with installing/updating via yum except that it will compare what's installed to what's currently available in repositories (i.e. --orphans). Perhaps you want to install and use the tool I suggested. Most of those packages downloaded via apt are likely to go into /var/cache/yum/updates/packages but of course that would likely depend upon which repositories you are using beyond the standard fedora repositories and what you have installed from these other repositories. I vaguely recollect someone providing an rpm command to list which repository packages came from on the list a few weeks back but I didn't save it. I'm still not sure why you want to move from apt to yum at this point though. If you just want to copy the files... cp -ar /var/cache/apt/archives/*rpm /var/cache/yum/updates/packages Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
