Yum/Bugzilla feature requests

[Jorge Gallegos]

Regarding bugzilla, you can close your bug report and mark it as a duplicate
of the earlier bug report (you provide the number). This will also add a
note to the the original bug report about the duplicate.

Hth.
On Sep 2, 2011 11:19 AM, "Barry Fishman" <barry_fishman at acm.org> wrote:
> Recently while running Fedora 16, my attempt at:
>
> yum update --skip-broken
>
> failed with:
>
> warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID
069c8460: NOKEY
> Retrieving key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64
>
>
> The GPG keys listed for the "Fedora 16 - x86_64" repository are already
installed but they are not correct for this package.
> Check that the correct key URLs are configured for this repository.
>
> Looking at bug #735037, It seems that there was a problem with package
> btrfs-progs.
>
> Couldn't yum refers to 'this package' but does not say which package was
> the problems. If it at least said which package was involved, I could
> have uninstalled that package and updated everything else.
>
> Better yet 'yum --skip-broken' could have removed that package from
> consideration, redid the dependencies and updated the remaining
> packages.
>
> As a side note, I checked bugzilla for problems with yum and finding
> none submitted bug #735235. It takes a while for bug reports to show up
> in the bugzilla search, so a day or so later when I got a confirmation I
> found the earlier bug report.
>
> I found no way in bugzilla to close my bug report by merging it into the
> earlier bug report. I think such an ability by the original submitter
> would help the people working on fixing bug, (and bug submitters,) by
> prefiltering the individual bug reports to which they needed to look at.
>
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