Problem with yum update && yum upgrade

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On 12/12/12, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 12:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 12/12/2012 05:33 PM, Roger wrote:
>>> Error: Package: system-config-date-1.10.5-1.fc16.noarch
>>> (updates-testing)
>>>             Requires: python-slip >= 0.2.21
>>
>> Disable updates-testing.  HTH, HAND.
> Thanks Joe
> Seems there is also a problem with node.js

The problem is that I never updated it for version 0.8 (I didn't have
enough free time to keep up with building everything third-party.) and
since the version shipped there was over six months obsolete I didn't
bother renewing the hosting, having better things to do with the
limited amount of money I have (such as eating ;-).

If you really need the old packages that used to be there you can:
sudo sed -i 's|nodejs.tchol.org|patches.fedorapeople.org/oldnode|g'
/etc/yum.repos.d/nodejs-*.repo

Stephen Gallagher and I are working on bringing a full Node.js stack
to Fedora proper, hopefully starting with Fedora 18.

> sudo yum upgrade --disablerepo=updates-testing
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
> http://nodejs.tchol.org/stable/f16/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno
> 14] curl#7 - "Couldn't connect"
> Trying other mirror.
> No Packages marked for Update
>
> Is there any way to comment out or delete the offending updates?

You'll just have to pass --skip-broken to yum for now.  The maintainer
needs to fix the dependencies on their update.

Let them know it's broken by filing negative karma against the update
[1] and/or filing a bug.

[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-20238/system-config-date-1.10.5-1.fc16

-T.C.