yum update -- F16-latest => rawhide

Kashyap Chamarthy kchamart at redhat.com
Tue Oct 11 12:51:03 UTC 2011


On 10/11/2011 05:29 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:19:22 +0530, KC (Kashyap) wrote:
> 
>> Heya,
>>
>> I'm trying to get rawhide running by yum updating a  minimal footprint F16 virtual
>> machine. Only @core package, so no gnome-* nothing else.
> 
> And no /bin/sh either? It is provided by "bash".

That was the obvious check. I /did/ check that (forgot to mention)
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[root at dhcp201-139 ~]# ls -al /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Oct 10 15:20 /bin/sh -> bash
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[root at dhcp201-139 ~]# file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses
shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped
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> 
>> ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:
>> /bin/sh is needed by groff-base-1.21-5.fc17.x86_64
> 
>> Then re-tried :
>> [root at dhcp201-139 ~]# yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide update
>>
>> Still no dice. As it still throws --  'ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:'
>>
>> Any hints here?
> 
> (Sounds more like a subject for "test" list.)
> 
> Since this unresolved dependency is not listed in the daily rawhide report:
> 
> Can you dig further and find out why you don't have anything that provides
> /bin/sh? How to do that? Prior to the upgrade attempt, query your local RPM
> database *and* also use repoquery. Then ask repoquery with the rawhide repo
> enabled. What do you get? Where did "bash" go?

That's what surprised me too. I did try these. 'bash' is right there.
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[root at dhcp201-139 ~]# rpm -qf `which bash`
bash-4.2.10-4.fc16.x86_64
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[root at dhcp201-139 ~]# repoquery -q --whatprovides --alldeps bash --enablerepo=rawhide
--disablerepo=*
bash-0:4.2.10-5.fc17.x86_64
[root at dhcp201-139 ~]#
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[root at dhcp201-139 ~]# yum repolist enabled
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
repo id                                                                repo name

                        status
rawhide                                                                Fedora - Rawhide -
Developmental packages for the next Fedora release
                        25,139
repolist: 25,139
[root at dhcp201-139 ~]#
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/kashyap


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