Too new readline on FC8

[Peter J. Stieber]

Somehow I managed to load readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64 on my Fedora 8 box. 
  It seems to be newer than any version currently available from the 
standard mirrors (readline-5.2-7.fc8).  I only point to standard 
mirrors.  Maybe this newer version was temporarily made available, then 
removed.

This is probably a stupid question, but how do I replace the *-9 version 
with the -7 version using yum?

Is it...

yum install [some kind of force option] readline-5.2-7.fc8

Thanks,
Pete

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 22:02 -0800, Peter J. Stieber wrote:
>  Somehow I managed to load readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64 on my Fedora 8
> box. 
>    It seems to be newer than any version currently available from the 
>  standard mirrors (readline-5.2-7.fc8).  I only point to standard 
>  mirrors.  Maybe this newer version was temporarily made available, then 
>  removed. 
FWIW, I have readline-5.2-9.fc8 on my systems; it came through on
January 17.

>  This is probably a stupid question, but how do I replace the *-9
> version 
>  with the -7 version using yum?
>  
>  Is it...
>  
>  yum install [some kind of force option] readline-5.2-7.fc8 
You'd need to download the old package and then rpm -u --oldpackage
<filename>.

Jonathan

[Peter J. Stieber]

PS = Peter J. Stieber
PS>> Somehow I managed to load readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64
PS>> on my Fedora 8 box.  It seems to be newer than any
PS>> version currently available from the  standard mirrors
PS>> (readline-5.2-7.fc8).  I only point to standard
PS>> mirrors.  Maybe this newer version was temporarily
PS>> made available, then removed.

JD = Jonathan Dieter
JD> FWIW, I have readline-5.2-9.fc8 on my systems; it came
JD> through on January 17.

It's causing me grief...

# package-cleanup --orphans
Setting up yum
readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64
dbus-python-0.82.3-1.fc7.x86_64
readline-devel-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64

Johnathan, do you have yum-utils installed?

Do you see the same thing?

Thanks for the help,
Pete

[Todd Zullinger]

Peter J. Stieber wrote:
>  It's causing me grief... 
"Relax. Don't Worry. Have a home-brew."

>  # package-cleanup --orphans
>  Setting up yum
>  readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64
>  dbus-python-0.82.3-1.fc7.x86_64
>  readline-devel-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64 
Did you happen to enable updates-testing at some point?  That's where
readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64 came from I believe.  Currently, 5.2-10.fc8
is the latest in updates-testing.

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[Peter J. Stieber]

PS = Peter J. Stieber
PS>> It's causing me grief...

TZ = Todd Zullinger
TZ> "Relax. Don't Worry. Have a home-brew."

Sounds good regardless of my computer situation.

PS>> # package-cleanup --orphans
PS>> Setting up yum
PS>> readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64
PS>> dbus-python-0.82.3-1.fc7.x86_64
PS>> readline-devel-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64

TZ> Did you happen to enable updates-testing at
TZ> some point?

No.

TZ> That's where readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64 came
TZ> from I believe.  Currently, 5.2-10.fc8
TZ> is the latest in updates-testing.

I neglected to read

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

when upgrading from 7 -> 8.  Someone on this list pointed this web page 
out to me so I gave it a look.  I have been having problems with X 
freezing and saw that, during the upgrade process, I should use

yum groupinstall sound-and-video gnome-desktop

because I use Gnome.  When I try it I get...

Transaction Check Error:
   package readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64 (which is newer than 
readline-5.2-7.fc8.i386) is already installed
   file /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/invest/__init__.pyc from 
install of gnome-applets-2.20.0-8.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from 
package gnome-applets-2.20.0-8.fc8.x86_64
.
.
.

So that's why I started asking about a readline that is newer that what 
is in the current F8 mirrors.

In /etc/yum.repos.d all of the testing and development repos have 
"enable=0".

Any advice?

Thanks for the help Todd,
Pete

[Development discussions related to Fedora]

Peter J. Stieber wrote:
...
>  Transaction Check Error:
>    package readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64 (which is newer than 
>  readline-5.2-7.fc8.i386) is already installed
>    file /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/invest/__init__.pyc from install 
>  of gnome-applets-2.20.0-8.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from package 
>  gnome-applets-2.20.0-8.fc8.x86_64 
Note the x86_64 v i386 in the first message.

# rpm -q readline gnome-applets 
--qf="%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-%{arch}\n"

If you want to update one of the arch packages, you have to do both.

To get an older package, search the other fedora mirrors until you find 
it. mirrors.fedoraproject.org

DaveT.