Automatic upgrade - incomplete kde?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Wed Jun 24 10:09:44 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 24 June 2009 10:41:01 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:29:17 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 09:51:04 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 11:35:55 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 09:00:53 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > > > > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 10:15:08 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > > > I'm wondering if part of the problem is that I disabled all repos
> > > > > > except fedora and fedora-updates.  Those f10 packages are from
> > > > > > fedora-kde.  Is the high version number there interfering?
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes...
> > > > >
> > > > > You missed part of the magic of using yum to update the system. All
> > > > > repos should be enabled as usual. So that you can maintain the rep
> > > > > and package priorities that you have set. Otherwise you could very
> > > > > easily break something.
> > > > >
> > > > :-)  That seems to explain a lot.  A large update is currently taking
> > > > : place.
> > > >
> > > > I'll report back.
> > > >
> > > > Anne
> > >
> > > Good to hear. One last thing about the current update....
> > >
> > > After this one completes, then you should run...
> > >
> > > yum --allow-downgrade update
> > >
> > > It does happen becuase of build number from the more recent version is
> > > less than the build from the previous version. As such yum would think
> > > that the version installed from, lets say Fedora 10 is newer than the
> > > build from Fedora 11 and you wouldn't know it.
> >
> > Hmm - problem.  "Command line error: no such option: --allow-downgrade"
> >
> > I now have a kde install.  There are still a few fc10 packages around:
> >
> > google-gadgets-0.10.5-7
> > libdcp4client-4.0.0-35
> > neon-0.28.4-1.1
> > iptables-ipv6-1.4.3.2-1
> > ca-certificates-2009-1
> > kbackup-0.5.4-1
> > GeoIP-1.4.6-2
> > libtalloc-1.2.0-31
> > compat-db45-4.5.20
> > sudo-1.7.1-2
> > kompose-0.5.3-13
> > iptables-1.4.3.2-1
> > google-gadgets-qt-0.10.5-7
> > libtar-1.2.11-11
> > kipi-plugins-0.3.0-1
> >
> > I presume these are the ones that will be taken care of by the --allow-
> > download?  (The yum help file doesn't show --allow-downgrade.)
> >
> > Anne
>
> Check to see if  yum-plugin-allowdowngrade-1.1.21-2.fc11.noarch has been
> installed and
>
It wasn't - I thought it was part of yum-utils.

> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/allowdowngrade.conf
>
> has been configured so that it enabled = 1
>
Yes, it is.

> Also, do you have your other repos like rpmfusion enabled? If not, then
> enable them making sure that you are getting the right updates.
>
Everything I had enabled before is currently enabled, but it still says that 
nothing needs updating.

> By the way. Is X finally running?
>
Yes it is.

Anne
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