On 03/29/2011 01:55 PM, JB wrote: > JD<jd1008<at> gmail.com> writes: > >> On 03/29/2011 12:18 PM, JB wrote: >>> JD<jd1008<at> gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> ... >>> This is my cure-all medicine: >>> >>> # yum-complete-transaction >>> # yum clean all >>> # yum distro-sync >>> # yum check >>> # package-cleanup --dupes | problems | orphans >>> if any dupes or problems show up, show us the output; ignore orphans >>> for now. >>> # find /etc -iname "*.rpm*" >>> and reconcile them if any >>> # ldconfig -v >>> # prelink -aR >>> # reboot >>> >>> Meltdown >>> >>> JB >>> >>> >> Will this uninstall any packages I already have? >> > The only entry of interest would be: > # yum distro-sync > > According to: > $ man yum > ... > distribution-synchronization or distro-sync > Synchronizes the installed package set with the latest packages > available, this is done by either obsoleting, upgrading or down‐ > grading as appropriate. This will "normally" do the same thing > as the upgrade command however if you have the package FOO > installed at version 4, and the latest available is only version > 3, then this command will downgrade FOO to version 3. > > This command does not perform operations on groups, local pack‐ > ages or negative selections. > ... > > it may reshuffle some packages, but only for the good/integrity of > the installation. > > JB > > I did that. I did update a lot of fc13 packages to fc14. But it still chocked on the dependencies that had other packages depending on the very dependencies it tries to update. Yum simply does not seem to be able to handle this chain of dependencies scenario. I consider it broken! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
