seth vidal <mailto:skvidal@phy.duke.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 01:32 -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> Michal Jaegermann <mailto:michal@harddata.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:45:43AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 23:45 -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote:
>>>> I'm doing yum update, but its only doing one package at a
>>>> time...any idea why?
>>>>
>>>> I've done a yum clean all and I'm using version 2.1.4
>>>
>>> What do you mean one package at a time?
>>
>> It seems to me that something went haywire with a dependency
>> resolution and not really in yum but somewhere in rpm libraries.
>> An attempt to use directly 'rpm -Fvh ...' with a bunch of packages
>> from the current updates ends up with:
>>
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>> linc >= 0.1.6 is needed by (installed) pyorbit-2.0.0-3.1
>> linc = 1.0.3 is needed by (installed) linc-devel-1.0.3-6
>>
>> while 'rpm -q linc' responds with 'linc-1.0.3-6' and
>> 'rpm -q linc-devel' with 'linc-devel-1.0.3-6'. This appears to
>> trip yum.
>>
>> It seems that the real culprit is ORBit2, though, but why it
>> triggers this problem is far from clear to me. Still, when other
>> packages are updated then ORBit2, and ORBit2-devel, can be updated
>> as well but only then.
>>
>> This is probably a bugzilla material but against what?
>>
>> Michal
>
> So I guess we should wait it out? But how can we upgrade when yum
> is trashed?
>
try upgrading yum to yum 2.1.4 and see if it makes any difference at
all. In this case I doubt it will. Also try rebooting your system to
see if there some sort of peculiar lock in the rpmdb causing this
pain.
Upgrading to 2.1.4 was what caused the problem. I rebooted, but I'm getting
the same.
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