Re: is yum working? unable to update a system

[William Hooper]

François Patte said:
[snip]
>  OK. I have kept in my yum.conf, only compatible repositories:
>  Fedora.US/Livna
>  and commented out the others.
>  
>  New attempt this morning:
>  
>  
>  
>  [root@totoche root]# yum update
>  Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>  Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
>  Server: Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror
>  Server: Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror
>  Server: Fedora Core 1 updates -- Fedora US mirror
>  Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
>  Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
>  Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Unreleased Updates
>  Finding updated packages
>  Downloading needed headers
>  ...........................
>  Resolving dependencies
>  ....Unable to satisfy dependencies
>  Package xmms-faad2 needs faad2 = 0:2.0-0.lvn.0.1.rc1.1, this is not
>  available.
>  
>  I *do not understand*!!!
>  
>  
>  1- I excluded all xmms in yum.conf:
>  
>  
>  exclude=zinf* php-domxml xmms* mplayer* 
You excluded them from which server?  It looks to me like you have excluded them from one
server, but not another.

It would also be helpful to pass the "-d" switch to get more debugging output
from yum.  Read about it in "man yum".

-- 
William Hooper