FC6 updates broken deps?

Florin Andrei florin at andrei.myip.org
Fri Feb 23 17:20:07 UTC 2007


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> A common scenario for newbies, which make you bow your head in shame: You
> had thought they would prefer the graphical package tools, you have not
> recommended the command-line, but they know Google and have found lots of
> documentation about how to install something with Yum. And what happens?
> Metadata checksum failures on apparently all mirrors. ^C doesn't help.
> Yum switches through all available mirrors. WTF? Some time later, 78
> updates are available. Newbie is caught in a loop of download failures,
> mirror-switching, ^C attempts, low through-put, and reacts very surprised
> and disappointed about "this Linux stuff".

So true. :-(

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Florin Andrei

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