Package update failure

[Antonio Montagnani]

A short resume:

I get a red alert from Update icon.
Yum has to be updated
When I try to update it I get the following message:

file /etc/yum.conf from install of yum-2.0.5-1.fd.fr conflicts with file 
from atrpms-36-rh-fc1.at

and upgrade aborts.

Of course there is no way to disinstall atrpms as many other packages 
depend on it. many packages were installed from
http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/

Any suggestion???

Tnx

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 02.02.2004 schrieb antonio montagnani um 16:39:
> A short resume:
>
> I get a red alert from Update icon.
> Yum has to be updated
> When I try to update it I get the following message:
>
> file /etc/yum.conf from install of yum-2.0.5-1.fd.fr conflicts with file 
> from atrpms-36-rh-fc1.at
>
> and upgrade aborts.
>
> Of course there is no way to disinstall atrpms as many other packages 
> depend on it. many packages were installed from
> http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/
>
> Any suggestion???

If third party repositories conflict either disable the use of any of
them, in this case probably freshrpms.net. Or set a specific package to
ignore by left click on the update notification icon.

Alexander

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:39:27PM +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> A short resume:
>
> I get a red alert from Update icon.
> Yum has to be updated
> When I try to update it I get the following message:
>
> file /etc/yum.conf from install of yum-2.0.5-1.fd.fr conflicts with file 
> from atrpms-36-rh-fc1.at

That is quite old. atrpms is at version 45 and these conflicts do not
exist anymore.
> and upgrade aborts.
>
> Of course there is no way to disinstall atrpms as many other packages 
> depend on it. many packages were installed from
> http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/
>
> Any suggestion???

Try apt-get dist-upgrade and apt will upgrade the packages. Or yum upgrade.

[Antonio Montagnani]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:39:27PM +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> > A short resume:
> >
> > I get a red alert from Update icon.
> > Yum has to be updated
> > When I try to update it I get the following message:
> >
> > file /etc/yum.conf from install of yum-2.0.5-1.fd.fr conflicts with file 
> > from atrpms-36-rh-fc1.at
>
> That is quite old. atrpms is at version 45 and these conflicts do not
> exist anymore.

Done...
> > and upgrade aborts.
> >
> > Of course there is no way to disinstall atrpms as many other packages 
> > depend on it. many packages were installed from
> > http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de/
> >
> > Any suggestion???
>
> Try apt-get dist-upgrade and apt will upgrade the packages. Or yum upgrade.

Why do many packages (about 50 on my system) require atrpms?? for 
example autoconf, openjade, expat (all with extension at) or 
xawtv....this means that atrps cannot be disinstalled: it is not a 
probel but a curiosity!!!

Tnx for help

FAQ: atrpms package (was: Package update failure)

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:31:00AM +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> Why do many packages (about 50 on my system) require atrpms?? for 
> example autoconf, openjade, expat (all with extension at) or 
> xawtv....this means that atrps cannot be disinstalled: it is not a 
> probel but a curiosity!!!

It's probably an FAQ ;)

In ancient times, when there was fear that upgrading RH 7.2 to the
next version could leave traces of 3rd party rpms for RH 7.2 around,
atrpms was a convenient way to identify all packages from
ATrpms. E.g. rpm -e atrpms owuld identify all packages.

atrpms got real contents since, like GPG keys of major repositories,
perl helper scripts and kernel module helper scripts. It also got to
carry the apt and yum configs, that were split off the apt and yum
packages. The latter found some people in disagreement, and during
Xmas time I concurred, and split it out into another package (what the
Xmas spirit does to us ;).

Since the first instance of atrpms better methods (signing, using rpm
tags) for identifying packages have been used, and the "new" resolvers
like apt, yum and friends can upgrade the 3rd party rpms to the next
distribution, w/o manual intervention. Therefore the explicit atrpms
dependency was dropped.

Older packages still have this (harmless) atrpms dependency, newer
ones do not, unless they explicitly require sub-components of atrpms
(e.g. the perl and kmdl helpers).