Re: dnf Upgrade Produces GPG Error

[Stephen Morris]

On 18/3/18 12:02 pm, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/18/18 08:41, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > When I used dnfdragora to remove the 28.0.0 version from negativo17 and install the
> > 29.0.0 version from Adobe's repository, it told me the Adobe version was a
> > downgrade from the installed version, which I didn't understand. I have now managed
> > to get dnf to install all the updates without it attempting to put on the
> > negativo17 flash update.
> >
> > I wasn't explicitly using the version of flash from negativo17, it was an
> > incidental process. Originally I was only using negativo17's steam, handbrake and
> > nvidia repositories, until they recommended replacing their nvidia repository with
> > their multimedia repository. A little while ago I was getting a conflict between
> > the xorg nvidia packages I had installed and their nvidia package for xorg, and
> > while I was investigating how to resolve that (which I finished up resolving by
> > removing all the xorg nvidia packages) I found they had a .repo file that contained
> > definitions for all of their repositories, so, rather than having multiple .repo
> > files for their repositories I replaced them with the single .repo file. As a
> > result of this, having resolved the nvidia packages conflict, I issued the dnf
> > upgrade and it immediately upgraded the Adobe flash I had installed at the time to
> > the version that was in the negativo17 flash repository.
>
> I don't think I see a question in the above.
>
> But I would note the potential for problems when one uses multiple repos and packages
> are duplicated.  In those cases it is advisable that one edits the repo file from
> which you don't want to install the duplicate package to add the "exclude" directive.

You are right, I wasn't looking at it from that perspective, I was 
approaching it from the perspective of dnf being able to decide which 
was the best package to use if there were multiples providing the same 
functionality. I may have to disable to negativo17 flash repository, or 
set up a permanent exclude of the flash package if there are other 
useful packages in the negativo17 repository that the adobe repository 
doesn't provide, but before deciding which way to go I will have to 
thoroughly investigate what is in both repositories.

regards,

Steve
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